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The first launch of a Zenit rocket after the February accident is planned for September from Baikonur.

Fuelling has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana for Europe’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), readying it for a planned June launch with Arianespace’s workhorse Ariane 5 on an International Space Station servicing mission.

Rocket: Vega, Payload: Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1; Date: 7 May 2013, 0206 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. After this successful second flight, Vega is now fully operational.

The Resurs-P Earth observation satellite is due to be launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 23 June. It will be the first launch along the so-called “northern trajectory” [i.e. into polar orbit] this year.

ISRO is planning launch five rockets in 2013 from its launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, including a mission to Mars.

SES S.A. announced that the SES-6 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is now being processed for launch on board an ILS Proton Briz M rocket scheduled to lift-off at 1318 UTC on 3 June 2013.

Given the weather conditions over the Guiana Space Center, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to restart the countdown for Vega Flight VV02.