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Rocket: Chang Zheng 7A; Payload: Shiyan-12 01 and Shiyan-12 02; Date: 23 December 2021, 1012 UTC; Launch site: Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, China. The satellites were deployed into approx. 210 km x 35,765 km x 19.46° geostationary transfer orbits.

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On 23 December, the James Webb Space Telescope, safely stowed inside the fairing of ESA’s Ariane 5 launch vehicle, left the final assembly building for roll-out to the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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The Soyuz-2.1b rocket, scheduled to carry UK’s OneWeb communications satellites into orbit on 27 December at 1310 UTC, has been moved to the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Russian space agency said.

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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon (CRS-24); Date: 21 December 2021, 1007 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. It was the 31st and final SpaceX launch of the year. CRS-24 also marked the 100th recovery of an orbital class rocket booster.

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The test flight of an Angara A5 from Plesetsk cosmodrome has been postponed to 24 December from 23 December, two sources in the space rocket industry said according to Tass news agency.

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Berlin-based aerospace company PTS has been awarded a development contract by ArianeGroup to supply one of the core elements of the further development of the Ariane space program: the electronics and operating system for the ASTRIS Kick Stage.

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Russia’s next-generation GLONASS-K2 navigation satellite is likely to be launched in the second quarter of 2022, according to a source in the country’s rocket and space industry.