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 Russian rocket with US satellite was launched from the Pacific.
On August 19, 2012 at 06:54 UTC the "Zenit-3SL” rocket-carrier equipped with the "DM-SL” booster was launched from the launch pad Odyssey in the Pacific Ocean by the Sea Launch company.
The rocket orbited the US "Intelsat-21” telecoms satellite.
The 5,980 kilogram "Intelsat 21” is a geostationary communication satellite built by Space Systems Loral. The satellite will provide telecomunication services to high-growth markets around the Pacific including Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and U.S. West Coast.
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Date: 19.08.2012
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Proton-M rocket fails to orbit two satellites.
On August 6, 2012 at 19:31 UTC the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier equipped with the Briz-M booster was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket was to orbited the Telkom-3 and the Express MD2 satellites.
The Briz-M booster failed to bring the two satellites into a calculated transition orbit. According to preliminary data, Briz-M fired engines at a scheduled time, but they worked only for seven seconds rather than the programmed 18 minutes and 5 seconds.
Telkom-3 satellite was built by Russia’s Reshetnev space company with its communication equipment made by Thales Alenia Space. The satellite was to provide telecoms services for Indonesian customers.
This is the first time Indonesia has bought a satellite from Russia.
The Express MD2 was a small communication satellite, designed and manufactured by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center for the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).
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Date: 11.08.2012
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Curiosity lands on Mars.
On August 6, 2012 at 05:14 UTC NASA's "Curiosity” Mars rover, loaded with the most-sophisticated instruments ever used to explore another world, touched down on the Red Planet after an eight-month voyage across 352 million miles of interplanetary space.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the mission, received a radioed confirmation of touchdown sent by the Mars Science Laboratory from Mars, 154 million miles away and 13.8 minutes after the fact.
The target landing zone was Gale Crater near the base of a three-mile-high mound of layered rock that represents hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of years of martian history, a frozen record of the planet's changing environment and evolution.
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Date: 09.08.2012
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Arian rocket orbited 2 telecommunications satellites.
On August 02, 2012 at 20:54 UTC the Ariane-5ECA (VA-208 / L564) rocket-carrier was launched from Guiana Space Center at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 telecommunications satellites - Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2.
The HYLAS 2 spacecraft will be used by European operator Avanti Communications to extend the British firm's reach into Africa and the Middle East for broadband and high-speed, two-way data communications services. The satellite was made by the American "Orbital Sciences” Corporation.
The Intelsat 20 satellite was made by the American "Space Systems Loral” company and will to provide a broad range of communications services for Europe, the Middle East, Russia and Asia. In addition, it will beam direct-to-home television broadcasting for 20 million subscribers across Asia.
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Date: 03.08.2012
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Russian Spacecraft docked with ISS six hours after liftoff.
On August 2, 2012 at 01:18 UTC the Russian "Progress M-16M” unmanned supply spacecraft automatically docked with the International Space Station just only six hours after blasting off from Earth.
It was for the first time, when Russia docked the space freighter with the ISS in the first six hours after the launch rather than in two days, which was a routine procedure.
Progress-M-16M delivered over 2639 kilograms of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-man crew onboard the orbital station.
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Russia launched “Progress M-16M” spacecraft to Space Station.
On August 01, 2012 at 19:35 UTC the "Progress M-16M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier.
For the first time Russia will attempt to dock the space freighter with the ISS in the first six hours after the launch rather than in two days, which is a routine procedure.
Progress-M-16M is to deliver more than 2500 kilograms of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-man crew onboard the orbital station.
The docking is scheduled for 05:24 a.m. Moscow time (01:24 UTC) on the fourth revolution of the cargo spacecraft around Earth.
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Russian Space Freighter Departs From Orbital Station.
On July 30, 2012 at 21:16 UTC (July 31 at 01:16 Moscow time) the Russian Progress M-15M unmanned supply spacecraft undocked form the International Space Station.
The spacecraft will conduct a series of scientific experiments under the Radar-Progress project during a three-week scientific mission before being de-orbited into the Pacific.
The project focuses on the study of space engines impact on the ionosphere.
The Progress M-15M arrived at the ISS in April. The freighter undocked from the ISS on July 23 to test an upgraded Russian automated rendezvous system.
The first attempt to re-dock with the ISS using the Kurs-NA system resulted in failure. The spacecraft, however, successfully docked with the orbital station on a second attempt on July 29 after Russian engineers had reprogrammed on-board controls.
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Russian Progress M-15M space freighter re-docked to Space Station.
On July 29, 2012 at 01:00 UTC the Russian Progress M-15M unmanned supply spacecraft re-docked with the International Space Station.
A second attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of a new rendezvous system was performed successfully.
The spacecraft docked to the Russian "Pirs” module.
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Russian rocket orbited 4 satellites.
On July 28, 2012 at 01:35 UTC the Russian "Rokot” rocket-carrier equipped with the "Briz-KM” booster was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The rocket orbited a Russian military satellite of "Kosmos” series, two Gonets-M telecoms satellites and the "MiR” (Yubileiny-2) scientific microsatellite.
The 107-ton light Rokot launcher is a derivative of the Russian RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It contains two original lower stages of the ICBM and an upper stage for commercial payloads.
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Date: 28.07.2012
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Japanese Unmanned Spacecraft Arrives at International Space Station.
On July 27, 2012 the Japanese HTV 3 (Kounotori 3) unmanned supply spacecraft completed a successful rendezvous with the orbiting complex.
First the HTV 3 spacecraft flew to about 12 meters away from the ISS, where it was grabbed at 12:23 UTC by the space station's 18-metert long robotic arm, which was controlled from inside by American astronaut Joseph Acaba and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Using the Canadarm2 robotic arm, Acaba and Hoshide maneuvered Kounotori 3 to the Earth-facing docking port on the space station's Harmony node at 14:34 UTC.
The spaceship is loaded with 3,600 kg of cargo, including care packages with food, clothing and other items for the space station's crew.
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