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Rocket: Soyuz ST-B; Payload: two Galileo IOV satellites; Date: 12 October 2012, 1815 UTC; Launch Site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. All the stages of the Soyuz vehicle performed as planned and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their targeted orbit at 23 222 km altitude, 3 hours 45 minutes after lift-off.
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Orbcomm Inc. said the single prototype of its second generation of satellites, launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Services (CRS-1) mission to the ISS on 8 October 2012 (UTC), verified various functionality checkouts prior to its deorbit. The OG2 prototype was deployed into a lower orbit as the result of a pre-imposed safety check required by NASA. This was caused by an engine failure on the Falcon 9 launcher’s first stage, which according to SpaceX will be subject to an investigation.
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U.S. Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton has ordered an Accident Investigation Board (AIB) to investigate why a Delta IV RL-10B-2 upper stage engine did not perform as expected during the 4 October launch of a GPS IIF satellite.
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Technicians and engineers are completing final system checks and spacecraft inspections on the first of NASA’s third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS). Boeing Space Systems will ship TDRS-K from its satellite assembly facility to Cape Canaveral in November. The December launch of TDRS-K will be aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
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Intelsat S.A. has accepted its second Boeing 702MP (Medium Power) satellite, Intelsat 21, which was launched 18 August and is enhancing Intelsat’s broadcast and communications services throughout four continents.
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Rejecting claims made earlier by a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), ESA said it never had any option to de-orbit its Envisat spacecraft within 25 years in accordance with current guidelines (which didn’t exist at the time Envisat was launched).
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