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The Space Industry Research Center (NITs RKP), a Russian Federal Governmental Company, carried out the third (and final) sequence of cold bench tests (KhSI-3) of URM 2, an Angara Common Core Booster (CCB), at their IS 102 Test Facility on 19 August.
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Azerbaijan does not want its AzerSpace (aka AzerSat) satellite to be launched by a Russian company, business information portal ABC.AZ reported.
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Rocket: Atlas V/Centaur; Payload: AEHF 1; Date: 14 August 2010, 1107 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The satellite was successfully released into geostationary transfer orbit 51 minutes after lift-off.
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The launch of Iran’s Rasad 1 Earth observation satellite aboard an indigenous rocket, which was to take place later this month, has been delayed.
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U.S. Air Force officials have completed their assessment and implemented necessary corrective actions associated with a Minotaur IV rocket software issue.
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NASA’s first microsatellite designed to create a capability that increases opportunities for secondary, scientific and technology payloads, or rideshares, to be flown at lower cost than before has arrived at Kodiak Island, Alaska, to begin final launch preparations.
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The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite was encapsulated into the fairing in preparation for a lift-off on 14 August aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Rocket: Chang Zheng-4C; Payload: Yaogan X (YG 10); Date: 9 August 2010, 2249 UTC; Launch Site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Chinese state media said the launch was successful.
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