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Rocket: Chang Zheng 2FT1; Payload: Tiangong-1; Date: 29 September 2011, 1336 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module will test space docking with a spacecraft later this year.
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: QuetzSat 1; Date: 29 September 2011, 1832 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Separation of the satellite after five burns of the upper stage is expected at 0345 UTC on 30 September (too late for this issue).
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Aerojet announced that along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, the team conducted a successful ground test firing of an AJ26-62 flight engine that will power Orbital’s Taurus II medium-class space launch vehicle. The test was conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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ESA and OHB System AG have signed a rider to the contract for the development of the SmallGEO geostationary satellite platform. The extension signed has a value of approx. EUR14 million.
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NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth’s atmosphere, the Sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and Earth-like planets around nearby stars.
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