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The U.S. Air Force’s 45th Space Wing is set to launch an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 4 March 2011. The rocket will carry an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV).

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: GLONASS-K; Date: 26 February 2011, 0307 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The navigation spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit.
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The launch of the first GLONASS-K navigation satellite has been postponed another 24 hours.
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The final flight of space shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 2153 UTC on 24 February to deliver a new module and critical supplies to the International Space Station.
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Preparations for the launch of NASA’s Glory mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have been suspended temporarily. Engineers continue to troubleshoot a malfunction in ground support equipment associated with the Taurus XL rocket.
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ISRO has postponed the launch of a PSLV carrying the remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 by nearly a month.
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The launch of a Soyuz with a GLONASS-K satellite has been postponed for 24 hours.
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The launch of NASA’s Glory spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been postponed at least 24 hours.
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