Satellite News

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Intelsat 20, HYLAS 2; Date: 2 August 2012, 2054 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guyana. The successful mission marked the milestone 50th consecutive success for its Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher.
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The launch of an Atlas V carrying the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office NROL-36 payload was scrubbed due to a range instrumentation issue.
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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-16M [Progress 48P]; Date: 1 August 2012, 1935 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The unmanned progress vessel is to dock to the International Space Station only six hours after launch (too late for this issue).
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Rocket: Rokot; Payload: Kosmos 2841, two Gonets-M satellites, MiR [Yubileiny 2]; Date: 28 July 2012, 0135 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The satellites were put into designated orbits at 0321 UTC, as scheduled.
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China successfully conducted tests on its new 120-tonne-thrust liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene engine for its new generation carrier rocket, the Chang Zheng-5, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
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Astrotech Corporation, (ASTC) and its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary (ASO) announced that the U. S. Department of the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has selected ASO to provide payload processing services for the second in a series of Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C; Payload: Tian Lian 1C (Tianlian 1C, TL-1C, CTDRS-1C); Date: 25 July 2012, 1543 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite, a tracking and data relay satellite similar to the United States’ TDRS spacecraft, is the third in the series.
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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program completed a combined System Requirements Review and System Definition Review, which set requirements of the overall launch vehicle system. SLS now moves ahead to its preliminary design phase.
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