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Rocket: Kosmos 3M; Payload: Kosmos 2463; Date: 27 April, 0105 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The spacecraft reached the target orbit at 0208 UTC.

The launch of India’s Cartosat-2B from Sriharikota spaceport has been scheduled for 9 May, 0353 UTC, ISRO said.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.

Rocket: Proton M/Briz-M; Payload: SES-1 (AMC-4R); Date: 24 April 2010, 1119 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After an eight-hour, 58-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the SES-1 satellite directly into geostationary orbit.
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Japan’s SERVIS-2 spacecraft has arrived in Russia, in preparation for a scheduled June launch aboard a Rokot launch vehicle.
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Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV 1, a.k.a. USA 212); Date: 22 April 2010, 2352 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. U.S. Air Force officials said the launch was successful.

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 9.9 million km with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 20 April at 1308 UTC.
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Arianespace said that the new Soyuz launch site in French Guiana is entering its final phase of preparations, with qualification testing of the facility’s infrastructure now underway and the construction of its 50-meter-tall mobile gantry well advanced.
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