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SATELLITE NEWS
AEHF 2 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE KEEPS ON CLIMBING - Avoiding the perilous past of its forerunner, the U.S. Air Force's newly launched anti-jam communications satellite has successfully fired its main engine three times to maneuver toward the intended operational orbit.
The Advanced Extremely High Frequency 2 spacecraft, AEHF 2, was launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral on May 4, reaching a supersynchronous transfer orbit stretching from 138 statute miles at its lowest point to over 31,200 statute miles at its highest and inclined 20.6 degrees to the equator.
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NIMIQ-6 LAUNCHED FROM BAIKONOR - On Thursday another Proton-M carrier rocket equipped with an upper stage Breeze-M booster, was launched from the Baikonor Cosmodrome. The latest launch is to place a Canadian Nimiq-6 telecommunications satellite in orbit, the fifth so far.
The Nimiq-6 communications satellite weighs 4.75 tons and will provide television broadcasting and communication services to Canada.
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JAPAN LAUNCHES COMMERCIAL ROCKET BUSINESS . - Japan launched for the first time early Friday a rocket with a non-Japanese payload, fulfilling a spare-no-expense, two-decade quest to compete in the world's $4.3 billion commercial satellite-launch business. Japan enters an increasingly crowded orbit of newer players and established companies delivering space cargo at relatively low cost, raising questions about whether Tokyo's long campaign risks fizzling shortly after it takes off.
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SPY SATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM RUSSIA ON SOYUZ BOOSTER - Russia launched a Soyuz rocket Thursday with a clandestine photo surveillance satellite designed to collect intelligence on strategic sites around the world for defense purposes.
The Soyuz-U launcher lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1405 GMT (10:05 a.m. EDT), 6:05 p.m. Moscow time. The Plesetsk launch site is a military-run facility in Arkhangelsk oblast
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US-RUSSIAN CREW MAKES SMOOTH HOOKUP AT SPACE STATION - An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, kicking off a four-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin docked with the space station at 12:36 a.m. ET Thursday as the two spacecraft soared 249 miles above the border between Mongolia and Kazakhstan.
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JAPAN TO LAUNCH 4 SATELLITES FRIDAY, 1 FOR SKOREA - Japan plans to launch four satellites into space this week, including a South Korean one that is its first payload for a foreign customer.
Spokesman Reiichi Tanaka at Japan's space agency said Tuesday the HII-A rocket carrying the satellites will launch Friday from a remote pad in southwestern Japan.
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SPACEX READY AT LAST TO LIFT OFF FOR SPACE STATION - The private spaceflight company SpaceX is preparing to launch a robotic capsule to the International Space Station this week, following a series of delays that postponed the historic first flight of a commercial spacecraft to the orbiting outpost.
SpaceX is slated to launch its Dragon capsule to the space station atop the company's own Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Liftoff is set for 4:55 a.m. EDT.
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SOYUZ TMA-04M LAUNCHES THREE NEW CREWMEMBERS FOR BUSY MISSION TO ISS - The Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, known by its US designation of 30S, has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (local time) carrying three new crewmembers bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff was on schedule at 7:01 AM Tuesday local Kazakh time, which was 3:01 AM Tuesday GMT, or 11:01 PM More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com)
NEW ASTRONAUT CREW LAUNCHING TO SPACE STATION TONIGHT - Three astronauts are finally ready to blast off toward the International Space Station tonight (May 14), after weeks of delay caused during testing of their Russian-built space capsule.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are slated to lift off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome tonight at 11:01 p.m. EDT (0301 GMT Tuesday). They'll ride a Soyuz spaceship into orbit, ultimately berthing with the station early Thursday morning (May 17), NASA officials said.
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INDIAN ROCKET ENGINE TEST SUCCESSFUL - India Saturday successfully tested the indigenous super cooled cryogenic engine that will be used to fire a heavier rocket to put a communication satellite in the geo-synchronous orbit later this year, the space agency said.
"The acceptance test of the cryogenic stage of the heavy rocket was conducted for 200 seconds and the performance of the engine was as predicted," the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.
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