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SES S.A., Intelsat, Ltd., and Inmarsat plc announced that they have founded the Space Data Association Ltd. (SDA), a non-profit company established in the Isle of Man that is the first satellite operator-led association dedicated to sharing critical operational data in support of satellite operations, improving flight safety and preserving the space environment.
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The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space manoeuvre of the mission, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011.
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Bangladesh plans to launch a satellite for the development of the country’s telecommunications services, Post and Telecommunications Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju said.
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Control of ESA’s GOCE satellite was transferred to the operations teams, marking the end of its commissioning and calibration phase.

Thales Alenia Space has confirmed it was no longer involved in the construction of the Ekspress-AM5 and -AM6 satellites that are being built by ISS Reshetnev. TAS apparently has been replaced by Canada’s MDA.
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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has awarded a contract to Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems for the manufacture of three Kosmos-CX satellites intended for remote sensing observations and monitoring of agricultural lands over the whole Russian territory.
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Three GLONASS-M satellites have been sent back to manufacturer Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, Interfax reported citing an unnamed source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.
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