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Minotaur-C lifts off with 10 small EO satellites

October 31st, 2017 by

Rocket: Minotaur-C; Payload: six SkySat Earth Observation Satellites, four Dove CubeSats; Date: 31 October 2017, 2137 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The rocket lifted off as planned. Confirmation of orbit insertion and payload deployments were not available at the time of writing this.

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Vega to launch Earth observation satellite for Kingdom of Morocco

October 31st, 2017 by

For its 10th launch of the year, and the 11th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit the MOHAMMED VI – A satellite (also known as MN35-A or Morocco EO Sat 1).

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