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Rocket: Proton-M/Briz M; Payload: SES-4 (NSS-14); Date: 14 February 2012, 1936 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a 9 hour, 12-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the SES-4 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort.

Yesterday’s successful maiden flight of ESA’s new Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, opens a new set of launch services – including two of the Sentinel satellites for GMES.
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The third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for launch by Arianespace was installed atop its Ariane 5 today, marking one of the final steps in preparations for lift-off on 9 March on a servicing mission to the International Space Station.

Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said that Iran will construct a new launch base to send bigger satellites into orbit, the state-run Press TV reported.

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SES S.A. announced that ILS has re-scheduled the SES-4 satellite launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board an ILS Proton Briz M rocket for 1936 UTC on 14 February.