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Preparations for the launch of Russia’s Fobos-Grunt probe proceed strictly as planned, the general director and general designer of the Lavochkin research and production association, Georgy Polishchuk, was quoted as saying by Itar-Tass.

The latest GPS satellite, launched on 24 March, has not yet been set healthy after problems with the L1 and L2 signals the spacecraft broadcasts.

On 11 May, Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission. The replacement and repair of several instruments will see Hubble equipped to continue its programme of discovery well into the next decade, ESA said in a statement.

NASA’s Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument.

Iranian media reported that the country’s first domestically-satellite, Omid 1, has successfully concluded its mission and re-entered the atmosphere.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide a ground station solution to an international customer to enable support for the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites.

Boeing has successfully completed the system-level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L programme.