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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-14M [Progress 46P]; Date: 25 January 2012, 2306 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The vehicle was inserted into a 191 km x 262 km x 51.6 degrees parking orbit.
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Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2011.
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Sea Launch will launch the Intelsat 21 communications satellite in the third quarter of 2012. The spacecraft will be lofted into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system.

ATK’s Liberty programme successfully held its Launch System Initial Systems Design (ISD) Review, which completes the third of five milestones in the company’s unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program.

NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 24 January to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects ranging from our Ssun to giant black holes billions of light-years away. It is scheduled to launch 14 March from an aircraft operating out of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Before the reentry of Russia’s Fobos-Grunt Mars probe on 15 January, ESA established a final prediction for reentry of 1745 UTC, referring to an altitude of 10 km. Within the expected uncertainties, the prediction has been largely confirmed by observations.