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RADARSAT-2's Launch Delayed to March 2007
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on Wednesday July 19, @07:26AM
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MDA recently announced the launch date for RADARSAT-2 is now March 2007. The very short press release: "MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that the launch of RADARSAT-2 is now scheduled for March 2007. This aligns completion of the final integration and test with the recently secured launch window on the Soyuz II being provided by Starsem."
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The launch is now planned for March 2007. [...] Quicksat, the first micro-satellite entirely constructed at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has just completed its environmental testing qualifications at the David Florida Laboratory."
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