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The launch of JAXA’s Akatsuki probe, also known as Planet-C and Venus Climate Orbiter, aboard an H-2A rocket has been postponed.
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One of the final space shuttle visits to the International Space Station began on 14 May at 1820 UTC with the launch of Atlantis and six astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will deliver cargo, critical spare parts and a Russian laboratory to the station.
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The first launch of a Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana has been scheduled for 17 December, Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov said.
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The next attempt to launch the telecommunications satellites Astra 3B and ComsatBW 2 aboard an Ariane 5 is tentatively scheduled for 21 May, Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said in an interview with Le Figaro.
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Avanti Communications Group plc said it has been notified by Arianespace of the potential (but not certainty) for several weeks of schedule slippage in relation to the readiness of the Soyuz launch vehicle and site at Kourou.
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The Soyuz Consultation Committee, comprising representatives of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES and Arianespace, met on 11 May in French Guiana. It confirmed that the inaugural launch of Soyuz from the Guiana Space Center would take place during the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin a 12-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 1820 UTC on Friday, 14 May, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-132 mission is Atlantis’ final scheduled flight.

International Launch Services announced that an ILS Proton will launch the Intelsat 22 satellite for Intelsat S.A.
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