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An industry team led by Boeing has received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for work on Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) programme.
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations centres that will detect and report on objects and debris orbiting the Earth.
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 heavy-lift flight with the world’s largest commercial telecommunications satellite was given the go-ahead for lift-off on 1 July following a launch readiness review.

Turkey plans to have a new telecommunication satellite launched by the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012, the country’s Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said.

JSC Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it has completed the GLONASS-M32 satellite. Its launch in cluster #40 is scheduled for September 2009.
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After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve ‘end of mission’ on 30 June 2009.

The U.S. Air Force announced that the second Space Based Infrared System Highly Elliptical Orbit payload and associated ground system has entered trial period operations.

Preparations are ongoing for the launch of the Sirius FM-5 satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral for Sirius XM Radio Inc. Lift-off is currently scheduled for 30 June 2009, 1910 UTC.