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 Japan launched a spy satellite.
On September 23, 2011 at 04:36 UTC the H-2A / 202 rocket-carrier was launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan's primary launching base off the southern coast of the main islands. The rocket orbited the IGS O-4 spy satellite.
The secret satellite, built by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., is circling Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of more than 300 miles. The spacecraft was a more than $500 million payload outfitted with an optical camera and telescope to supply imagery to the Japanese government for intelligence, defense and civilian remote sensing applications. The spacecraft will become an operational member of Japan's optical spy satellite fleet.
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Date: 30.09.2011
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Arian 5 launch.
On September 21, 2011 at 21:38 UTC the "Arian 5” rocket-carrier was launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 communications satellites - Arabsat 5C, a communications satellite for broadcasting and Internet services and the SES 2 satellite.
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Date: 30.09.2011
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Russia launched a military satellite.
On September 20, 2011 at 22:47 UTC (on September 21 at 02:47 Moscow time) the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket orbited the "Kosmos-2473” military satellite.
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Date: 22.09.2011
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China launched a satellite.
On September 18, 2011 at 16:33 UTC the Chang Zheng-3B (Long March-3B) rocket-carrier was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province, China.
The rocket orbited the "Zhongxing-1A” communication satellite. Zhongxing-1A was designed and manufactured by the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The satellite will provide high-quality voice communication, broadcast and data transmission services for users across China.
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Date: 22.09.2011
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Soyuz TMA-21 landing.
On September 16, 2011 at 03:59 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-21” spacecraft carrying ISS crewmembers Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrei Borisenko and Ronald Garan landed at a designated area in Kazakhstan at a distance of 149 kilometers from the city of Dzhezkazgan.
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The return was originally set for September 8, but the failed launch of a Progress space freighter on August 24 forced the rescheduling.
A special search group opened the hatch to the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft and reported that all three crewm
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Soyuz TMA-21 undocked from ISS.
On September 16, 2011 at 00:38 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-21” manned spacecraft undocked from the ISS. The crew consisted of two Russian cosmonauts, Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenko, and American astronaut Ronald Garan is to land at about 04:00 UTC.
The Soyuz TMA- 21 spacecraft departs from the International Space Station and heads toward a landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (photo NASA). |
2 satellites were launched to the Moon.
On September 10, 2011 at 13:08 UTC the "Delta-2” rocket-carrier was launched by United Launch Alliance from complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA.
The rocket successfully boosted two NASA science satellites into space on looping, round-about trajectories to the Moon, the first step in an ambitious $496 million mission to map the cratered satellite's gravity and internal structure.
In one hour and 20 minutes after liftoff, the GRAIL-A (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) satellite was released from the Delta 2's second stage, followed a few minutes later by GRAIL-B. Both spacecraft will follow looping 2.6-million-mile trajectories to the Moon, a low-energy approach that allowed the use of a less expensive, medium-lift
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Date: 19.09.2011
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Progress M-11M deorbiting.
On September 01, 2011 the "Progress M-11M” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. It’s engine was started for deorbiting at 09:34 UTC and then at 10:21 UTC the spacecraft’s debris drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.
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