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Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: Huanjing 1C [Huan Jing 1C, HJ 1C], Xinyan 1, Fengniao 1; Date: 18 November 2012, 2253 UTC;Launch site: Taiyuan space centre, China. The successful launch marks the completion of a plan initiated by China in 2003 to create a small environmental monitoring satellite constellation.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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South Korea will likely launch its KSLV-1 (or Naro-1) on 29 November, the country’s government said today, two days after the arrival of a replacement for a defective part in the rocket partly built by Russia.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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The fourth spacecraft to be orbited by Arianespace for the Skynet 5 military satellite constellation has been delivered to French Guiana, moving preparations into a new phase for a mid-December dual-passenger Ariane 5 mission, the seventh in 2012.
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NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth — the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s 3 1/2- year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mission that could last as long as four years.
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OHB Sweden, a subsidiary of the European space and technology group OHB, has been selected by Astrium as contractor for the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) and the Chemical Propulsion System (CPS) for the Solar Orbiter mission that will perform close-up observations of the Sun. Both contracts have a total volume of EUR34,4 million.
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Rocket: Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat; Payload: Meridian 6; Date: 14 November 2012, 1142 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The satellite was put into a designated orbit at around 1500 UTC. Russian operators “have established a reliable communications and data link with the spacecraft,” a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said.
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South Korea’s planned launch of its KSLV-1 will likely be further delayed as the Russian replacement for a defective part in the rocket is not expected to arrive before 17 November.
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Specialists at the Plesetsk space centre in Russia have erected a Soyuz-2.1a launcher with Fregat upper stage for the launch of the Meridian spacecraft, Aerospace Defence Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin was quoted as saying.
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