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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon (COTS Demo 2/3); Date: 22 May 2012, 0744 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The vehicle’s first stage performed nominally before separating from the second stage. The second stage successfully delivered the Dragon spacecraft into its intended orbit.
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Russia is “very likely” to halt its joint Dnepr space programme with Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to commercial and environmental concerns, Roskosmos said.
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The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California for the equator, in preparation for the launch of the Intelsat-19 satellite owned by Intelsat. Lift-off is planned for 0523 UTC on 1 June at the opening of a 120-minute launch window.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed and built for Telesat, is successfully performing post-launch manoeuvres according to plan. The satellite was successfully launched yesterday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan aboard a Proton Briz M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) completed the critical operation period for the Global Change Observation Mission 1 – Water “Shizuku” (GCOM-W1).
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Rocket: Soyuz U; Payload: Kosmos 2480; Date: 17 May 2012, 1505 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. Spokesman for the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said that the satellite successfully separated from the rocket eight minutes after lift-off.