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 Live animals launched by Russian rocket.
On July 18, 2014 at 20:50 UTC the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket orbited the “Foton” retrievable Russian satellite.
The “Foton” is due to spend up to 60 days in orbit, hosting 22 experiments supplied by Russian and German institutions probing questions in biological and materials sciences. A high-flying package of live animals, plant seeds, and materials samples are aboard the spaceship. When the mission is complete, the spacecraft will break apart and its spherical landing capsule -- fitted with a heat shield -- will return to Earth with a parachute-assisted landing in Russia.
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Date: 29.07.2014
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"Spaceship Janice Voss" arrived at space station
On July 16, 2014 the American "Cygnus” (CRS-2) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by astronauts inside the space station at 10:36 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Harmony” module. The official time of capture of the "Cygnus” with the Harmony module's common berthing mechanism was 12:53 UTC. Orbital Sciences christened the Cygnus as "Spaceship Janice Voss," naming it for the late astronaut and former Orbital employee.
The "Cygnus” (CRS-2) delivered about 1,500 kg of supplies for the ISS and its crew. Among the research investigations aboard Cygnus are a flock of Earth-imaging nanosatellites, hardware to enable a trio of free-flying robots to perform 3D mapping inside the ISS and a host of student experiments.
This is the second of the eight Antares and Cygnus cargo delivery missions to the ISS unde
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SpaceX orbited 6 Orbcomm satellites.
On July 14, 2014 at 15:15 UTC the “Falcon-9” rocket-carrier was launched from Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited six Orbcomm OG2 satellites. Orbcomm Inc. is a New Jersey-based company that connects businesses with remote equipment via satellite. Built by Sierra Nevada Corp., the satellites are designed for a 10-year lifetime.
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Date: 29.07.2014
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Private U.S. cargo spacecraft launched to Space Station.
On July 13, 2014 at 16:52 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island off the U.S. east coast., Va., USA.
The "Cygnus” (CRS-2, “Janice Voss”) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited by the company's "Аntares” rocket-carrier on its second cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services.
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Russian rocket launched from Kourou Cosmodrome.
On July 10, 2014 at 18:55 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-ST-B” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou launch site in French Guiana. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited four broadband communications satellites for O3b Networks a company based in Britain's Channel Islands with a mission to link developing countries via high-speed Internet. O3b's name is short for the "other 3 billion," referencing the approximate number of people without reliable, high-speed Internet connections.
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Russia launched Angara space rocket.
On June 09, 2014 at 12:00 UTC the Russian newest “Angara” light-weight rocket was successfully test-launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region. The Angara-1.2PP delivered a dummy satellite to the designated landing site at the Kura range in the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, 5,700 km away from the launch pad. Angara-1.2PP is the light version of the space-launch vehicle family, which is developed by the Khrunichev space rocket corporation. The system can launch rockets of various classes, with workload varying from 1.5 to 35 tons.
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Russia orbited 7 satellites.
On July 08, 2014 at 15:58 UTC the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the “Fregat” booster orbited 7 satellites: the Russian “Meteor M2” weather observatory; the small cube-shaped DX1 satellite designed and assembled in Russia by a private company; a Russian magnetospheric research satellite named MKA-FKI, or Relek; the Britain “TechDemoSat-1” and UKube-1; the American SkySat-2 satellite; the Norwegian AISSAT-2 satellite.
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Date: 26.07.2014
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Russian orbited 3 communications satellites.
On July 03, 2014 at 12:43 UTC the “Rockot” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The launch was performed by Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. The rocket equipped with the “Briz-KM” booster orbited 3 “Gonets” (Messenger) communications satellites. The satellites provide communications in remote regions, disaster zones, and assist users in monitoring industrial and research assets.
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Delta rocket orbited scientific satellite.
On July 02, 2014 at 09:56 UTC the Delta-2 rocket-carrier was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 30th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2) satellite to watch the Earth breathe from space. The space vehicle will study natural and man-made carbon dioxide emission and absorption to help scientists assess how the greenhouse gas is contributing to global warming.
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India orbited French imaging satellite.
On June 30, 2014 at 04:22 UTC the PSLV C-23 rocket-carrier was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island, India's primary launch site on the country's east coast about 50 miles north of Chennai. The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket orbited the French "Spot 7” commercial Earth imaging satellite. In addition to the "Spot 7” satellite, the following micro satellites were orbited: CanX-4 and CanX-5 (Canada); AISat (Germany) and Velox-1 (Nanyang Technical University in Singapore).
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