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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given Roskosmos and the government a month to submit proposals on how to improve the agency’s work following a string of launch failures.
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The Inter-departmental Failure Review Board met under the chairmanship of V. Popovkin at Roskosmos on 7 August to review potential causes of the Proton M/Briz M mission failure to orbit two spacecraft-Express MD2 and Telkom-3. The integrated launch vehicle took off from the Baikonur launch base the day before.
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NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will send two spacecraft into the harsh environment of our planet’s radiation belts. Final preparations have begun for launch on 23 August from Florida’s Space Coast.
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Intelsat S.A. confirmed that the south solar array on Intelsat 19 has deployed and the satellite was successfully transferred to geostationary orbit. All of the satellite’s communications antennas are now in their operational positions, and the communications payload is being tested.
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Sea Launch announced that it has released preliminary “Quick Look” payload unit (PLU) telemetry information to Intelsat S.A. and Space Systems/Loral on 8 June 2012. The launch provider said that while all systems aboard the Zenit 3SL rocket performed nominally, there was indeed an “unexpected event” 72 seconds after lift-off.
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