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An enhanced Proton version is to launch the DirecTV 10 satellite on 7 July from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It will be the second Proton mission for International Launch Services in 2007.
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After more than six months of in-orbit tests and trial operations, Chinas has declared its Fengyun 2D (FY 2D) weather satellite operational.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite was recently launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia with Goodrich Corporation’s satellite attitude control technology on board, the company said.
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PT Indosat Tbk has appointed Thales Alenia Space to build and launch the Palapa-D satellite. The spacecraft, to be launched aboard a Chinese rocket during the second half of 2009, will replace Palapa-C2 at 113 degrees East, which is due to expire in 2011.
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Bigelow Aerospace said it has established contact with its second pathfinder spacecraft, Genesis II. Launched earlier Thursday from Yasny, Russia, Mission Control in North Las Vegas, Nevada/USA, made first contact at 2120 UTC the same day.
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The Lockheed Martin Space Radar team has successfully completed on-schedule an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) with the U.S. Air Force, an important programme milestone that precedes the System Requirements Review.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) said that all eight Intelsat VII satellites, initially built by SS/L for Intelsat Ltd., continue healthy operations after surpassing their contracted life.
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NASA has created a new office, the Einstein Probes Office, to facilitate NASA’s future medium-class science missions.
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