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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead
The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read moreU.S. authorizes $2.5B for 2011 shuttle operations
William Atkins
Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:30
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In addition, many contractor employees for NASA, such as United Space Alliance employees, have already been told of their pending termination of their jobs.
Many are scheduled for termination early in 2010.
Currently, the last space shuttle mission is tentatively scheduled for September 16, 2010.
STS-134, with the space shuttle Discovery, is set to deliver the ULF5, ELC 4 (ExPRESS Logistics Carrier), ROEU (Remotely Operable Electrical Umbilical-755), and the AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) to the Space Station.
This additional year would slightly help to reduce the number of years between the retiring Space Shuttle program and the new Constellation program.
Space Shuttle would end (probably) near the end of 2011 and Constellatoin would begin sometime in 2015.
Thus, a lapse of about three to four years would be reasonably expected (from the beginning of 2012 to somewhere in 2015).
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