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 ATV-3 spacecraft is deorbited into Pacific.
On October 03, 2012 the European ATV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft was successfully de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific. The Automated Transfer Vehicle, nicknamed Edoardo Amaldi after a pioneering Italian physicist, plunged into the atmosphere after two rocket burns slowed the craft's velocity enough to fall from orbit.
Debris from the ATV-3 fell into a predefined zone in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile at about 01:30 UTC.
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China launched a satellite for Venezuela.
On September 29, 2012 the "Chang Zheng-2D” (Long March-2D) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The rocket orbited the Venezuelan "VRSS-1" (Venezuela Remote Sensing Satellite) satellite.
The VRSS-1 is Venezuela's first remote sensing satellite, and it will be mainly used for the country's land resources inspections, environmental protection, disaster detection and management, crop yield estimation and city plans.
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Date: 04.10.2012
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European ATV-3 Spacecraft undocked from Space Station.
On September 28, 2012 at 21:44 UTC (September 29 at 01:44 Moscow time) the ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi” European unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian "Zvezda” module of the International Space Station after a previously unsuccessful attempt earlier in the week.
The ATV Edoardo Amaldi remained docked to the Zvezda service module on the Russian segment of the orbital station, after an initial attempt to undock on Tuesday (25.09.2012) was called off due to a command error in the communications link between the ISS and the space freighter.
Edoardo Amaldi is expected to leave the orbit on October 3 and be sunk in the Pacific Ocean.
It was the first postponement of undocking of European and Japanese cargo spacecraft from the ISS. All previous cases of undocking were carried out in line with the scheduled t
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Date: 02.10.2012
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Ariane orbited communications satellites for Europe and India.
On September 28, 2012 at 21:18 UTC the "Ariane-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Guiana Space Center at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket orbited a pair of telecommunications spacecraft – the ASTRA 2F European television satellite and the GSAT-10 Indian-made telecommunications spacecraft.
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Date: 02.10.2012
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Russian spy-satellite landing.
In according to the website of Jonathan McDowell, on September 24, 2012 at about 17:03 UTC the landing capsule of Russian "Kosmos-2480” military satellite landed.
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Date: 01.10.2012
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China launched 2 navigation system satellites.
On September 19, 2012 at 03:10 Beijing time (on September 18 at 19:10 UTC) the Chang Zheng-3B (Long March-3B) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The rocket orbited 2 "Beidou” (Compass) navigation satellites (Beidou DW14 и Beidou DW15) for China’s indigenous global navigation and positioning network.
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Date: 19.09.2012
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Russia launched European meteo satellite.
On September 17, 2012 at16:28 UTC the "Soyuz – 2.1a” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited the European "MetOp-B” meteorological satellite.
The satellite is the second in a series of three European polar orbiting weather satellites, designed and manufactured by Astrium to provide a broad range of measurements vital to weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
The 4100 kg satellite has been designed to operate in orbit for five years.
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Date: 18.09.2012
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Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft landed safely in Kazakhstan.
On September 17, 2012 at 02:52 UTC the Soyuz TMA-04M landing capsule landed safely at a distance of 86 kilometers to North-East from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. 
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 32 – Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin as well as American astronaut Joseph Acaba.
They spent in space 124 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes and 30 seconds.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide - remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 33 crew.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft undocked from the ISS.
On September 17, 2012 at 03:09 Moscow time (Sept. 16 at 23:09 UTC) the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 32 – Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin as well as American astronaut Joseph Acaba.
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Japanese HTV-3 spacecraft deorbited.
On September 14, 2012 at 05:26 UTC the Japanese HTV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited.
The spacecraft was expected to break apart and burn up from the heat of re-entry, and any leftover debris fell into a predetermined zone in the southern Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile.
The re-entry marked the end of a 55-day mission for the disposable cargo craft, which lifted off July 21 from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. It was attached to the International Space Station for 47 days.
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