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A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month, NASA said in a statement.
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) of Japan to build their next geostationary broadcasting and telecommunications satellite.
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Russia will launch on 29 January a scientific satellite to study the Sun’s interaction with the Earth, the federal space agency said.
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The first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-1) payload and ground system, built by a Lockheed Martin team, has been certified for operations by U.S. Strategic Command.
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China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced that two next-generation telecommunications broadcast satellites, Xinnuo 5 and Xinnuo 6, will be launched in 2010 and 2011.
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The launch of NASA’s planet finding satellite Kepler, currently scheduled for March 2009, could be delayed because of a possibly defective part, Flight International reports.
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Vietnam plans to launch its first remote sensing satellite by 2012, chairman of the national Research Programme on Space Science and Technology, Nguyen Khoa Son, announced according to VNA news agency.
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MESSENGER recently completed the second part of a two-part deep-space manoeuvre, providing the remaining 10 percent velocity change needed to place the probe on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.