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XCOR Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced the first successful demonstration of XCOR’s long life, high performance piston pump technology with liquid hydrogen.
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Badr-5 (Arabsat-5B); Date: 4 June 2010, 1100 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a nine-hour, 13-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the Badr-5 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: dummy Dragon capsule; Date: 4 June 2010, 1845 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. SpaceX declared this first test flight of its rocket a near-perfect success.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C; Payload: Beidou-G3?; Date: 2 June, 1553 UTC; Launch Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The navigation satellite was put into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.

Rocket: Rokot/Briz KM; Payload: SERVIS-2 (Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System 2); Date: 2 June 2010, 0159 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The spacecraft was injected into a Sun-synchronous orbit of 1,200 km altitude.

SpaceX said it is now targeting 4 June for its first test launch attempt of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The four-hour launch window opens at 1500 UTC.

Preparations remain on schedule for launch of Rokot launch vehicle with SERVIS-2 spacecraft. Today assembling the Rokot launcher on the launch pad started.