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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-04M (Progress P36); Date: 3 February 2010, 0345 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.

Iran announced it has successfully launched a research rocket carrying a mouse (or a rat, according to other reports), two turtles and worms into space.

Two solar instruments built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto are awaiting launch on 9 February 2010 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by ITT Corporation to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads for two international weather satellites.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield has passed its critical design review, certifying that its design is complete and meets mission requirements. By achieving thermal, deployment and stray-light targets, the sunshield is now ready for manufacturing.

NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017. The agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget provides a US$60 million per year extension for continued study of the ringed planet.

EADS North America has received a five-year contract to provide commercial radar satellite data to the U.S. government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use in intelligence, military and homeland security applications.