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Rocket: Delta IV Medium-plus 5,2; Payload: NROL-25; Date: 3 April 2012, 2312 UTC; Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base. The rocket carried a national security payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, reportedly with a retrograde target orbit inclined 123 degrees relative to the equator.
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A commercial Launch Services Agreement between Antrix Corporation Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO; and Astrium SAS has been signed recently.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 “Enabler” mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office of the Department of Defense.
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The United States’ next heavy-lift launch vehicle — the Space Launch System — is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of milestone reviews.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/E; Payload: Apstar 7; Date: 31 March 2012, 1027 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was deployed to its targeted geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes after lift-off.

India is to launch its home-made radar satellite RISAT-1 on 20 April from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota. An exact time has not been announced.

The launch of a Delta IV carrying a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is delayed until 3 April.