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The Progress M-65 cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station on 17 September and served as a temporary space lab, has crashed into the Pacific Ocean as planned.
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The Mercury-bound spacecraft MESSENGER has completed the first part of a two-part deep-space manoeuvre, providing the expected 90 percent of the velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.

China will team up with Russia to launch two probes to take pictures of Mars and one of the planet’s two small moons, Phobos, in October next year.

The German military commissioned its first radar spy satellite system, SAR Lupe, on 4 December.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Melco) has received an order to build the ST-2 communications satellite for a joint venture between Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Company Limited (Chunghwa).

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Companyas contractor for the next series of GOES weather satellites, GOES-R.

Ambient Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) testing was successfully completed on the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Sensor (VIIRS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by Northrop Grumman Corporation’s subcontractor, Raytheon Company.

After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.