The South African main contractor GLTA, part of the Aveng Group in a joint venture with the Dutch company BAM who had a 25 % stake, constructed the upgrade, which was designed by the architects HOK Sport ( renamed Populous in January 2009 ) and Boogertman + Partners.

* 2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket.

* 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010.

In fiscal year 2009, NASA budget allocated $ 2. 98 billion for 5 launches to the program, including $ 490 million for " program integration ", $ 1. 03 billion for " flight and ground operations ", and $ 1. 46 billion for " flight hardware " ( which includes maintenance of orbiters, engines, and the external tank between flights.

In a catalog listing known launches up to July 2009, the Union of Concerned Scientists listed 902 operational satellites.

In August 2009, the NASA assistant associate administrator for the Launch Services Program stated that NASA might purchase additional Delta II launches beyond those it had planned at that time.

* 2009: Palm ( now a division of HP ) launches the Palm Pre smartphone with the Palm Touchstone wireless charger.

* 2009 National Bank launches Private Wealth 1859, a complete and integrated new line of personalized products and services, dedicated exclusively to the specific needs of affluent clients

In June 2009 Coventry University launches the University's iTunes U site which now has over 600 educational podcasts and videos for anyone to download for free.

In autumn in 2009 Maersk Line launches a new graduate programme called the Maersk Line Graduate Programme ( M. L. G. P ).

After several shows promoting the album, Dark Funeral launches the fifth studio album in 2009, Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus.

Nov. 2009 Travelzoo launches Travelzoo Network in UK

In 2009, Chevrolet launched the Cobalt's eventual successor, the Chevrolet Cruze ( based on the new Delta II platform ), in Europe, with launches in other markets ( including the US ) following in 2010.

It launches in Spring 2009 with another collection of clothing after resigning with its distributor and partner Marc Ecko Enterprises.

# Screendaily. com ( 2007 ), " Celestial Movies launches on Indonesia's TELKOMVision ", retrieved on June 30, 2009, http :// en. wikipedia. org / w / index. php? title = Celestial_Movies & action = edit

On August 8, 2009 Alexander Leonov, Director of the Russian Machine Building Research and Production Center, said " we are ready for test launches.

As of 2009, only the single-engine Centaur ( SEC ) has been used, and no launches using a dual-engine Centaur ( DEC ) are currently planned.

Three of the last four launches have ended in failure, including the February 24, 2009 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission and the March 4, 2011 launch of the Glory mission.

* 2009 — Syngene partners with Sapient Discovery to expand integrated drug discovery offerings ; Syngene and DuPont Crop Protection Forge Alliance Partnership ; Bristol-Myers Squibb and Syngene open new R & D facility at Biocon Park ; Biocon launches BASALOGTM-long lasting basal insulin for Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetics ; Biocon inks partnership with ISB to launch the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management ; Announces strategic collaboration with Mylan to enter the global generic biologics market ; Biocon and Amylin Pharmaceuticals enter into a global development and commercialization agreement for a novel peptide hybrid.

In 2009 and 2010 the Poker Channel continued to expand its availability in Europe, including launches on all cable platforms in Portugal ( Zon, Meo, Cabovisao ); Neufbox ( SFR ) in France ; Austria Telekom, Vectra and UPC in Poland, and making the channel available to all subscribers of Focussat, DigiTV and UPC Direct in Eastern Europe in Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia.

* 2009 – AllianceBernstein launches Dynamic Asset Allocation tool set

The Third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge began construction in March 2009 linking Nakhon Phanom province in northeastern Thailand and Khammouan province in Laos.

Jones, Page and Bonham looked for a replacement for Plant, considering singers including Steven Tyler and Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, but in January 2009 it was confirmed that the project had been abandoned.

The Volgograd Bridge, under construction since 1995, was inaugurated in October 2009.

He is the author of a number of books about intelligent design, including The Design Inference ( 1998 ), Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology ( 1999 ), The Design Revolution ( 2004 ), The End of Christianity ( 2009 ), and Intelligent Design Uncensored ( 2010 ).

File: BnotYaakovBridge. JPG | Jordan River just south of the Bnot Ya ' akov Bridge ( May 2009 )

Bridge leading into Harpers Ferry from Maryland in February 2009.

In the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the character of Tony, played by Heath Ledger, is found hanging ( alive ) under Blackfriars Bridge, described by director Terry Gilliam as " an homage to Roberto Calvi ".

In the 2009 film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the Millennium Bridge is shown to be destroyed due to an attack by Death Eaters instead of the fictional Brockdale Bridge mentioned in the book.

" which took place at the 2008 Bridge School Benefit where they both performed, a version of which was released as a bonus track on her 2009 release The Fall, Widespread Panic, and Counting Crows and the Wallflowers performing " California Stars.

On 6 March 2009, however, as part of a massive new public works program, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that plans to construct the Messina Bridge had been fully revived, pledging EUR 1. 3 billion as a contribution to its estimated cost of EUR 6. 1 billion Some 3. 3 km long and 60 m wide, the bridge would be supported by two 382 m pillars, each higher than the Empire State Building, and accommodate six freeway lanes, a railway ( for up to 200 trains a day ), and two walkways.

On December 7, 2009, Interstate 64 was complete in its entire length in Missouri from the Poplar Street Bridge to I-70 in Wentzville.

On 4 October 2009, the Kurilpa Bridge opened across the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia.

* As of 2009, Horn Lake is also the home of the headquarters of the American Contract Bridge League.

* Howard Menger ( 1922 – 2009 ), UFO contactee whose writings on the subject include The High Bridge Incident, about his initial contact with aliens, when he was ten years old.

The Champlain Bridge ( Route 17 ) connected Crown Point to Vermont until 2009, when the bridge was demolished as unsafe.

While most years in the past decade the ferry service has run year-round, the ice-breaking ferries usually used on this route have been redeployed to Crown Point, NY to fill in for the Champlain Bridge which was demolished in 2009.

Because of the closing of the Lake Champlain Bridge in the fall of 2009, as of October 2009 a temporary pedestrian ferry service runs from the Westport Marina across Lake Champlain to Vermont on a limited basis during morning and evening commuting hours.

Currently as of the end of 2009, unmarked freight cars particularly covered hoppers are now parked and being stored along the southbound track in Perkasie between Market Street and Park Avenue, from Park Avenue to the Old Bethlehem Pike Bridge, and so on to Meetinghouse Road in Telford.

Since 2009 Tidioute, Pa has been the home to the World War Two Reenactment of The Bridge at Remagen, 1945.

The Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge is a North Texas Tollway Authority project and was opened to the public on August 1, 2009.

The Tamar Bridge from a train on the neighbouring Royal Albert Bridge, 2009

* Hypnotists in Paris ( 2009, Eden Bridge Music ) Produced by Sam Phillips.