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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said the static test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 9 March was automatically aborted because of a rather simple problem.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 9 March.
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All stand alone testing of the EchoStar-14 and the Briz M upper stage has been successfully completed.
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China’s fourth space centre, Wenchang on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, will be put into service between 2014 and 2015 – up to two years later that previously planned.
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The Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s second dual-payload flight of 2010 has begun its assembly.

The Indian Space Research Organisation conducted the static test of its liquid core stage (L110) of GSLV Mk III launch vehicle, for 150 seconds at its Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) test facility at Mahendragiri on 5 March 2010.

Rocket: Delta IV Medium+ (4,2); Payload: GOES-P; Date: 4 March 2010, 2357 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Following a nominal four hour, 21-minute flight, the Delta IV deployed the spacecraft.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4C; Payload: Yaogan IX (YG 9); Date: 5 March 2010, 0455 UTC; Launch Site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. According to Chinese state-run media, the launch was successful.