Status check on military's new missile spacecraft / New trend for satellites

   NEWSALERT: Monday, March 19, 2011 @ 1931 GMT
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CERTIFICATION WORK CONTINUES ON NEW MISSILE WARNING CRAFT
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The lead spacecraft in the U.S. military's new generation of missile
early-warning satellites is delivering better-than-expected results as
exhaustive testing continues 22,300 miles above the planet.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av022/testing.html

LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av022/video.html

MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av022/status.html


ELECTRIC PROPULSION COULD LAUNCH NEW SATELLITE TREND
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Boeing's announcement last week of a contract to build up to four
communications spacecraft with all-electric propulsion for Asian and
Mexican customers could shift the commercial satellite industry's trend
for larger, heftier platforms requiring powerful rockets to launch them
into orbit, officials said.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1203/19boeing702sp/


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CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSE LONG DELAY FOR PEGASUS LAUNCH
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Launch of NASA's NuSTAR space observatory is going into an extended delay
while engineers continue working on the Pegasus rocket software and await
the next available opportunity in the U.S. military's flight range in the
remote Pacific.

http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/nustar/status.html


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