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Rocket: Delta II; Payload: GeoEye-1; Date: 6 September 2008, 1851 UTC; Site: Vandenberg Air Force Station, USA. Following a nearly 59 minute flight, the spacecraft was deployed into a 681-km orbit.

Rocket: Delta II; Payload: GeoEye-1; Date: 6 September 2008, 1851 UTC; Site: Vandenberg Air Force Station, USA. Following a nearly 59 minute flight, the spacecraft was deployed into a 681-km orbit.

NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for the two remaining space shuttle missions in 2008.

A URM-2 second stage booster for Russia’s planned Angara rocket has been delivered to an engine test facility in the Moscow Region for “cold” firing tests, the Khrunichev Space Research and Production Center said according to Novosti news agency.

Launch service provider Kosmotras said that following telemetry data processing, the injection accuracy of the five RapidEye satellites launched aboard a Dnepr rocket on 29 August 2008 from Baikonur Cosmodrome was calculated.

GeoEye announced the launch of its GeoEye 1 Earth-imaging satellite was going ahead as planned after the successful completion of the Flight Readiness Review.

Rocket: Dnepr; Payload: five RapidEye satellites; Date: 29 August 2008, 0715:58 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The commercial remote sensing satellites were successfully delivered into their target 630km Sun-synchronous orbit.

NASA managers are looking to move space shuttle Atlantis to its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center no earlier than the morning (local time) of 2 September.