| Topics: BUSINESS | FAILURES | FEEDS & LINKS | LAUNCHES | SATELLITES |
| BUSINESS |
| Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (Aerospace Systems) results Q3 FY 2012 |
| 03 Feb 2012 ATK reported operating results for the third quarter of its Fiscal Year 2012, which ended on 1 January 2012.
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| Roskosmos expects payment for Fobos-Grunt from insurers |
| 02 Feb 2012 Roskosmos hopes to receive an insurance payment of RUB1.5 billion (US$49.6 million) for the loss of the Fobos-Grunt probe, Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told Ekho Moskvy radio.
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| Northrop Grumman Corp. (Aerospace Systems) results 2011 |
| 01 Feb 2012 Northrop Grumman Corporation reported financial results for the year 2011.
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| FAILURES |
| Engine failure blamed for Meridian satellite crash |
| 31 Jan 2012 The crash of Russia's Meridian communications satellite was caused by the malfunction of one of the satellite carrier rocket's engines, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roskosmos said.
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| Fobos-Grunt killed by radiation-susceptible COTS components? |
| 31 Jan 2012 The head of Russia's space agency said that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a "low-quality imported component" may have been vulnerable to the radiation.
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| FEEDS & LINKS |
| SES counts 5,200 TV channels |
| 03 Feb 2012 SES said that it broadcast over 5,200 TV channels, including over 1,200 High Definition (HD) channels, at the end of 2011.
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| First Hughes Jupiter gateway commissioned |
| 01 Feb 2012 Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that the Jupiter Gateway and user terminals have successfully completed their factory and field qualifications and are now operational, delivering high-speed, end-to-end system traffic over the AMC 15 Ka-band satellite.
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| LAUNCHES |
| Delays of the day: Vega, Soyuz, Falcon 9 |
| 03 Feb 2012 New (tentative) launch dates have been announced for a number of launches.
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| Iran launches its third satellite |
| 03 Feb 2012 Rocket: Safir; Payload: Navid [also Navid-e Elm-o San'at]; Date: 3 February 2012 ("before local sunrise," exact time unknown); Launch site: unnamed military base in northern Iran.
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| Confirmed: OHB/SSTL to build eight more Galileo satellites |
| 02 Feb 2012 ESA today signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe's Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time.
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| DubaiSat-2 qualification model passes tests |
| 02 Feb 2012 The DubaiSat-2 project has completed a crucial stage in its design phase, with the qualification model (QM) passing a series of rigorous tests.
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| ULA completes milestones toward certifying Atlas V for human spaceflight |
| 02 Feb 2012 United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced the completion of two key milestones leading toward the certification of the Atlas V launch vehicle for human spaceflight.
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| SpaceX test fires new engine |
| 01 Feb 2012 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said it has successfully test fired SuperDraco, a new engine that the company said will play a critical role in its human spaceflight plans.
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| Soyuz TMA-04M delayed up to six weeks |
| 31 Jan 2012 Russia plans to postpone its next manned launch to the International Space Station (ISS) by at least a month, the head of its space agency's manned programmes was quoted as saying.
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| SATELLITES |
| Astrium installs 1 millionth solar cell on a spacecraft solar array |
| 03 Feb 2012 Astrium said it installed the one millionth solar cell from its supplier AZUR Space, a medium-sized supplier of solar cells based in Heilbronn, Germany, and delivered its 300th solar array. Astrium has also signed a long-term co-operation agreement with AZUR Space.
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| NASA's Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter |
| 03 Feb 2012 NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path with the mission's first trajectory correction manoeuvre. The manoeuvre took place on 1 February. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firings that, over the next five years, will keep Juno on course for its rendezvous with Jupiter.
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| Redu Space Services to build EDRS Mission Operation Centre |
| 03 Feb 2012 Redu Space Services (RSS), a joint venture of SES and QinetiQ Space nv, announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre (MOC) in the framework of the European Data Relay System (EDRS) programme .
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| EU to order more Galileo satellites from OHB - report |
| 01 Feb 2012 The European Union will reportedly award Germany's OHB AG a EUR250-million (US$327 million) contract to build eight more satellites for the Galileo navigation system.
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| First MUOS satellite encapsulated in payload fairing |
| 01 Feb 2012 The first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was encapsulated into its payload fairing on 29 January in preparation for a 16 February lift-off aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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| Special EUMETSAT Council achieves progress with EPS-SG |
| 01 Feb 2012 The special EUMETSAT Council meeting on 30-31 January recorded progress in the approval process for the EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) Preparatory Programme, with the sum of contributions increasing from nearly 55% to 83% and 18 of the 27 EUMETSAT Member States having firmly committed themselves to the programme.
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