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Vietnam Posts and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) plans to invest between US$290-350 million Vinasat-2, which it anticipates launching by 2012, the state-owned entity says on its website.
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Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication said the country expects to launch the second satellite in 2012, Vietnam Investment Review reported.
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The German military communications satellite passenger for Arianespace’s upcoming Ariane 5 flight has arrived in French Guiana to begin its pre-launch processing in preparation for a lift-off later this month.
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Infoterra GmbH (which holds the exclusive commercial marketing rights for TerraSAR-X data and services) announced that it won a framework contract covering the acquisition and provision of TerraSAR-X radar satellite data worth EUR2.2 million (US$3.1 million), as well as the implementation of a direct ordering tool for this data, worth another EUR200.000.
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The initial passenger for Arianespace’s fifth Ariane 5 mission of this year was delivered to French Guiana following a trans-Atlantic cargo flight from Europe.
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Engineers for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft spontaneously rebooted its computer on 26 August, 1242 UTC.

TerreStar Networks Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation, announced the successful completion of in-orbit testing (IOT) for TerreStar-1.