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Archive for June 5th, 2017

Successful launch of first complete GSLV Mk III

June 5th, 2017 by

Rocket: GSLV Mk III; Payload: GSAT-19; Date: 5 June 2017, 1158 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India. The new rocket,the most powerful ever built by India, placed the 3,136-kilogram GSAT-19 communications satellite into an on-target Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The separation occurred around 16 minutes after lift-off.

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Dragon launched, arrives at ISS

June 5th, 2017 by

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon; Date: 3 June 2017, 2107:38; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. It is SpaceX’s eleventh Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-11) to the International Space Station.

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EchoStar XXI pre-launch details

June 5th, 2017 by

A International Launch Services Proton Briz M is to launch EchoStar XXI on 8 June 2017 at 0345:47 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Cygnus departs ISS

June 5th, 2017 by

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced that its Cygnus spacecraft successfully unberthed from the International Space Station, beginning the next phase of its mission before it reenters Earth’s atmosphere.

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Galileo Initial Services: first quarter service performance

June 5th, 2017 by

The European GNSS Agency, GSA, through its GNSS Service Centre, has published the first of its regular quarterly performance reports on Galileo. This ‘European GNSS (Galileo) Initial Services Open Service’ report, now available online, covers the first three months of 2017.

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