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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced tentative dates for the next two H-II launches from the Tanegashima Space Center.
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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for advanced development proposals to support the United States’ next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).
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North Korea said it will launch an Earth observation satellite next month. An Unha-3 rocket carrying Kwangmyongsong-3 will blast off from its satellite launching station in North Pyongan Province between 12 and 16 April, the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in Pyongyang.
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 with its Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) payload is complete once again after reinstallation of the launcher’s payload fairing this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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The planned launch of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a 15 March launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional time to confirm the flight software used by the launch vehicle’s flight computer will issue commands to the rocket as intended.
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A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Eutelsat Communications and Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, have selected Arianespace to launch their Eutelsat 25B (formerly Eurobird 2A)/Es’hail 1 satellite in the second quarter of 2013 on board an Ariane 5 launcher.
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Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system. The launch will occur from Sea Launch’s launch platform Odyssey at its equatorial launch site, located at 154 degrees West longitude, in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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