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Russian Space Freighter Departs From Orbital Station.

On February 09, 2013 at 13:12 UTC the Russian Progress M-16M unmanned supply spacecraft undocked form the International Space Station.
Later at the same day the "Progress M-14M” spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific.

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Ariane rocket orbited 2 satellites.

On February 07, 2013 at 21:36 UTC the "Ariane-5ECA” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou launch site in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 telecommunications satellites.
The "Amazonas 3” satellite made by Space Systems/Loral (California) was orbited for Spanish operator Hispasat.
The "Azerspace/Africasat-1a” satellite produced by the "Orbital Sciences” American company was orbited for Azerbaijani operator Azercosmos and the Azerbaijani Communications Ministry.

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Russian rocket orbited 6 American satellites.

On February 6, 2013 at 16:04 UTC the "Soyuz – 2.1a” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The Russian rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited six satellites for Globalstar's mobile communications network.
The satellites will help keep Globalstar's two-way voice and data service for the company's subscribers in 120 countries.

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Sea Launch rocket, Intelsat satellite fall into Pacific.

On February 1, 2013 at 06:56 UTC the "Zenit-3SL” rocket-carrier was launched by Sea Launch consortium from its floating platform Odyssey at an equatorial launch site in international waters in the Pacific Ocean. In about 60 seconds after lift-off the Zenit-3SL rocket carrying an Intelsat-27 (IS-27) telecoms satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean following an emergency shutdown of its first stage motor.
The rocket fell into the sea not far from the Odyssey, which was not damaged in the failed launch.

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