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Rocket: H-2A/202; Payload: Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) Optical-4; Date: 23 September 2011, 0436 UTC; Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. “The rocket was launched successfully and the satellite was separated into an orbit around the Earth later,” a JAXA official said.
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The Plesetsk Cosmodrome has resumed preparations for the launch of a GLONASS-M navigation satellite with a Soyuz-2-1b rocket on 1 October, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin was quoted as saying.
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Russia says its first Earth remote sensing satellite intended to provide radar imagery and terrain mapping in real-time may be launched in January 2012.
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Eutelsat Communications announced that its Atlantic Bird 7 satellite is set for launch on Saturday, 24 September [one day later than previously scheduled].
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Arianespace has published the results of the latest Ariane 5 ECA launch.
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: military satellite [likely designated Kosmos 2473]; Date: 20 September 2011, 2247 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellite, which was launched “in the interests of the ministry of defence,” separated from the upper stage without problems at 0748 UTC on 21 September, Roskosmos said.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Arabsat 5C, SES 2; Date: 21 September 2011, 2138 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. Delivering a total payload lift performance of approximately 8,975 kg., the mission lofted Arabsat-5C for the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation (Arabsat) and SES-2, which will be utilised by Europe’s SES.

The launch of SES-2 and Arabsat 5C aboard an Ariane 5 has been postponed because of a strike.
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