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FAILURE: Orbital Taurus rocket fails NASA’s Glory spacecraft
Read more →: FAILURE: Orbital Taurus rocket fails NASA’s Glory spacecraftOrbital’s Taurus launch vehicle finally lifted off with NASA’a Glory spacecraft – at 10:09am GMT Friday morning – after…
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ViaSat Unveils FEC Cores for Optical Data Transport
Read more →: ViaSat Unveils FEC Cores for Optical Data Transport[03-03-11] ViaSat has rolled out its ECC66100-series Forward-Error Correction (FEC) core off-the-shelf product for optical transport, ViaSat announced…
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SES Astra Launches Antenna-Free Broadband Service in Europe
Read more →: SES Astra Launches Antenna-Free Broadband Service in Europe[03-03-11] SES Astra has launched an Astra2Connect-powered broadband sub-distribution service based in Germany to provide connectivity to European…
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China planning powerful carrier rocket for manned moon landing
Read more →: China planning powerful carrier rocket for manned moon landingChina is studying the feasibility of designing a powerful carrier rocket for making a manned moon landing and…
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NSR: HTS Technology Driving Oil and Gas Satellite Market Growth
Read more →: NSR: HTS Technology Driving Oil and Gas Satellite Market Growth[03-02-11] High-throughput satellites (HTS) and the increased presence of oil and gas operations in remote environments will help…
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STS-133: Final Spacewalk completed – Extra +1 Day
Read more →: STS-133: Final Spacewalk completed – Extra +1 DayThe STS-133 crew are working through their second and final spacewalk dedicated to several misc. tasks that will…
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Starmax HD Selects GlobeCast End-to-End Services for Spanish Distribution
Read more →: Starmax HD Selects GlobeCast End-to-End Services for Spanish Distribution[03-02-11] Spanish broadcaster Starmax HD has contracted GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption and delivery of the full bouquet…
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SES Astra Completes Sale of Majority Stake in ND SatCom to Astrium
Read more →: SES Astra Completes Sale of Majority Stake in ND SatCom to Astrium[03-02-11] SES Astra has completed the sale of its stake in German satellite equipment provider and ground system…
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Thales Alenia Space Establishes German Subsidiary
Read more →: Thales Alenia Space Establishes German Subsidiary[03-02-11] Thales Alenia Space established a separately owned German subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH, in Stuttgart, the…
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MDA Property Information Business Sell-Off Impacts Fourth-Quarter Profits
Read more →: MDA Property Information Business Sell-Off Impacts Fourth-Quarter Profits[03-02-11] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) reported a 2010 fourth-quarter loss of $55.6 million, compared with income of…
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China’s Tiangong-1 to be launched by modified Long March II-F rocket
Read more →: China’s Tiangong-1 to be launched by modified Long March II-F rocketThe unmanned space module Tiangong-1 that China plans to launch this year will be sent into space by…
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China expects to launch fifth lunar probe Chang’e-5 in 2017
Read more →: China expects to launch fifth lunar probe Chang’e-5 in 2017China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang’e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock…