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A joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team announced that it has successfully completed on-orbit checkout of the second Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) constellation.

NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 565 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the agency said.

The University of Colorado at Boulder took an unusual step by returning nearly US$3 million in cost savings to NASA for the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE).
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U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) engineers have successfully integrated two existing technologies to create a thermal emission management system suitable for space use.
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Frequency Electronics, Inc. has received an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) on a new contract to provide master clocks and microwave sources for satellite payloads on the U.S. Government’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) III.
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Integral Systems, Inc. , announced a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) to expand JSAT Corporation’s existing EPOCH IPS (Integrated Product Suite)-based ground system to support their new JCSAT-12 satellite, a Lockheed Martin A2100AX spacecraft planned for launch in 2009.
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ESA’s Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time on 17 June to transfer in one step 811 kg of refuelling propellant to the International Space Station while the two vehicles orbited Earth at 28,000 km/h. With this premiere for Europe, Jules Verne becomes the first western spaceship to succeed in refuelling another space infrastructure in orbit.
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Thuraya announced the commercial readiness of its third satellite, Thuraya-3, aimed at covering the Asia-Pacific region.
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