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Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons to match efforts by other nations, a deputy defence minister was quoted as saying.
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SmartSat, a new new UAE-based satellite operator, said its first satellite is now in the design stage while two of the world’s top 10 global satellite manufacturers have already been short listed for the project.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer reset last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.

The Boeing demonstration picosatellite CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) has surpassed 10,000 Earth orbits since its launch on 17 April 2007.

The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, has arrived by a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California/USA.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation said it was developing a robust, radiation-hardened, wireless spacecraft bus under a US$4.1 million, 21-month, first phase contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a EUR30 million contract with Astrium GmbH, Germany for the supply of a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE mission.
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