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Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are scheduled to begin a 14-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 1947 UTC on 29 April from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-134 mission is shuttle Endeavour’s final scheduled flight.
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Vietnam will launch its first remote sensing satellite in 2014, according to the Space Technology Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).
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Pre-launch speculation regarding classified satellites is not always correct, as the recent NROL-34 launch has shown.
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Rocket: Atlas V/Centaur; Payload: NROL-34; Date: 15 April 2011, 0424 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The classified payload was launched for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

The launch of an Ariane 5 with Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn on board was aborted shortly before lift-off 0n 30 March because of a problem with the main engine’s nozzle, Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said.

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The completion of the planned Baiterek [also: Baitarek] launch facility at the Baikonur cosmodrome has been postponed again.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3A; Payload: Beidou-2 IGSO-3…Read more