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Arianespace’ Le Gall Pushes To Support U.S. Space Exploration

August 5, 2009 / National Space Policy

The message from Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in a presentation on August 5 to the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, which was created to evaluate America's future human spaceflight operations after NASA's planned retirement of the Space Shuttle, was simple: Ariane 5 is available to support the future of U.S. space exploration, including cargo resupply flights for the International Space Station, along with missions to the Moon and Mars.

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Push To Process Precipitation Perplexities

August 1, 2009 / International Space Agreements

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President Keiji Tachikawa have signed an agreement defining the terms of cooperation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission — the ceremony occurred Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

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SatNews RFP/RFB Roundup

July 24, 2009 / Spectrum & Licensing

The Indian Department of Telecommunications, otherwise known as DoT, has invited bids from private and state owned operators to initiate approximately 28,000 fixed line broadband exchanges and 6,000 satellite broadband sites to increase broadband penetration throughout the country, with focus on rural areas.

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