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Space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 5 April, 1021 UTC on the STS-131 mission. The launch began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the second of five shuttle missions planned for 2010. Problems with the shuttle’s Ku-band antenna are not expected to significantly hamper the mission.
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Arianespace’s upcoming dual payload flight has been rescheduled to 9 April following additional checks performed on the launch vehicle at Europe’s Spaceport.
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Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. has moved the inaugural flight of its Falcon 9 vehicle to no earlier than 8 May.
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The first stage for South Korea’s KSLV-1, the country’s first locally assembled launch vehicle, has arrived at the country’s launch centre, the government said.
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SES World Skies announced that the SES-1 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan onboard an Antonov cargo plane.
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COM DEV International Ltd. said it has begun work on the design phase (Phase C) of the Canadian Space Agency’s Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM).
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NASA has provided some details of the incident that affected its EOS Aura satellite on 12 March 2010.
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A relatively old GPS satellite has stopped working shortly after a manoeuvre. It is not known whether the failure is permanent.
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