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The Scientific Research Institute for Long-Distance Radio Communications (NIIDAR, part of the RTI Systems Group) has developed a radar system of space measurements to ensure the safe launch and operation of satellites in orbit.

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Flight paths for launches of OneWeb communication satellites from the Baikonur space port will be improved to increase the number of spacecraft launched at a time, the Russian state space corporation Roskosmos said.

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Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b; Payload: 34 OneWeb satellites; Date: 22 August 2021, 0013 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission lasted three hours and 45 minutes. The 34 satellites have been separated, during nine separation sequences, at an altitude of 450 km.

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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: two Tianhui 2-02 satellites; Date: 18 August 2021, 2232 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The radar mapping satellites were deployed into approx. 500 km x 520 km x 97.45 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

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The upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket which will launch the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) later this year, is on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Rocket Lab, a leading launch provider and space systems company, announced it has signed a rideshare agreement with Scottish-American PocketQube satellite manufacturer, Alba Orbital, to launch a cluster of small satellites designed to demonstrate radio and night-time Earth observation technologies.

Rocket: Vega; Payload: Pléiades Neo 4, four auxiliary payloads; Date: 17 August 2021, 0147 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The mission lasted one hour, 44 minutes and 59 seconds during which Pléiades Neo 4 separated on a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 625 km while the four auxiliary payloads separated at 551 kilometers.

Rocket Lab has announced it will launch a satellite to test space junk removal technologies for Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company dedicated to the sustainable use of space.