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The Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base announced the publication of a guide that will allow commercial launch providers to compete for future launch service opportunities.
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NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle’s design, development, test and evaluation.
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The Russian Fobos-Grunt space probe is scheduled…Read more

Rocket: Proton-M; Payload: three GLONASS-M satellites; Date: 4 November 2011, 1252 UTC. The navigation satellites were placed into transfer orbit at 1841 UTC.

Russia postponed the launch of a Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS-M communication satellites Thursday due to technical reasons, Roskosmos said.
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Preparations for Arianespace’s second Soyuz mission from French Guiana are moving forward as assembly and checkout of the vehicle continue at the Spaceport. Its basic three-stage launcher is now taking shape in the MIK integration hall at the Soyuz launch site, located in the Spaceport’s northwestern sector near the town of Sinnamary.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-13M (Progress 45P); Date: 30 October 2011, 1011 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ascent was nominal, and all spacecraft systems were without issues.
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Arianespace and Optus announced that the Optus 10 satellite would be launched into geostationary transfer orbit mid-2013 by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
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