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Rocket: Zenit 3SL/Block DM-SL; Payload: Intelsat 19; Date: 1 June 2012, o523 UTC; Launch site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West longitude in the Pacific Ocean. Sixty minutes after lift-off, the satellite separated from the rocket’s upper stage and continued its ascent toward geosynchronous orbit.

NASA said that engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle’s flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from Boeing.

ATK and United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted a successful cold-temperature ground test today of a Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM-60) solid rocket motor used to boost ULA Delta IV launch vehicles.

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 1542 UTC west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.

Preparations for the second landing of the X-37B, the U.S. Air Force’s unmanned, reusable space plane, are underway at Vandenberg Air Force Base.