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Eutelsat Communications announced the entry into commercial service of its Eurobird 9A satellite at 9 degrees East.
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DigitalGlobe announced that the WorldView-2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corporation’s Space Systems Division, has been integrated by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. into the WorldView-2 spacecraft and system-level testing has commenced.
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At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to continue pursuing studies of a mission to Jupiter and its four largest moons, and to plan for another potential mission to visit Saturn’s largest moon Titan and Enceladus.
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China plans to launch a third ocean survey satellite in 2010 to upgrade its capacity for maritime weather forecasting and disaster relief, according to a report in an official publication of the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
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A primary operational and science instrument for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has passed a key environmental test at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s subcontractor, Raytheon Company.
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The head of Iran’s Aerospace Organisation, Reza Taqipour, said that Iran will build the Muslim world a satellite called Besharat and that the country has completed the project’s feasibility studies.
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O3b Networks announced that they have completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Constellation Space Segment being built by Thales Alenia Space for O3b Networks, LLC.

Eutelsat Communications announced the full entry into commercial service of its Hotbird 9 satellite at 13 degrees East.