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On 12 January, ISRO successfully conducted the qualification test of Cryogenic Engine for Gaganyaan programme for a duration of 720 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space refuelling service provider and Astroscale U.S. Inc. announced a commercial agreement to refuel Astroscale’s Life Extension In-Orbit (LEXI) Servicer in geostationary orbit (GEO); LEXI is the first satellite designed to be refuelled.

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Airbus Crisa, an affiliate company of Airbus, has signed a contract for the development of the Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) with Northrop Grumman.

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Copernicus Sentinel-1B is unavailable since 23 December 2021 at 0653 UTC, no data are being generated. Following the anomaly, resuming of the operations was carefully prepared including on-board configuration changes preventing the anomaly to occur again.

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Arianespace and the European Space Agency ESA have signed a contract to secure the launch of FLEX and ALTIUS on Vega C, from Europe’s Spaceport mid-2025.

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The launch window for Virgin Orbit’s third commercial flight,Above the Clouds, opens this on 12 January 2022. The spacecraft to be launched to Low Earth Orbit at 500 km circular orbit at 45 degrees inclination for this mission includes satellites for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program, Polish company SatRevolution, and Spire Global, Inc.

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Voyager Space Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro’s technology throughput to civil, commercial, and defence customers.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 7-m, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.

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