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Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced that the Measat-3a satellite has been returned safely to the U.S. for repairs.

ISRO officials maintain that the higher-than-expected temperatures aboard the Chandrayaan 1 moon probe poses no danger to the scientific instruments on board. Delaying the start of scientific operations was a purely precautionary measure, they said.

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) being built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth in the Landsat satellite series, has successfully passed the Instrument Critical Design Review (ICDR).

Goodrich Corporation has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for the first operational satellite system in support of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS).

India’s Chandrayaan 1 moon probe has run into trouble as the temperature inside the spacecraft has unexpectedly surged, BBC News reports.

The flight of Russia’s next Progress spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, to the International Space Station (ISS) will take four days, a Russian space official was quoted as saying.

Integral Systems Europe (ISE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. , announced that it has signed a yearly renewable contract to support the Polar Mission Control System (MCS) over the next 15 years with the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).