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 The 1st space launch in 2012.
On January 09, 2012 at 03:17 UTC the "Chang Zheng-4B” (Long March 4B) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province, China.
The rocket orbited the "Ziyuan III” high-resolution remote-sensing satellite. The satellite, weighing 2650 kg, entered an orbit of 500 km above the Earth about 12 minutes after it was launched. It has a designed life expectancy of five years.
The satellite is tasked with offering services to aid the country's land-resources surveys, natural-disaster prevention, agriculture development, water-resources management, and urban planning.
The rocket also orbited the "VesselSat-2” satellite from Luxemburg.
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Date: 10.01.2012
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2011 – Space Launch Results.
84 rocket-carries were launched in 2011. 77 launches were successful. 3 launches were partly-successful. There were 4 fail launches.
Russia performed 32 launches, 5 of them were partly-successful or failed.
China performed 19 launches including 1 failed launch.
USA performed 18 launches including 1 failed launch.
Arianespace performed 7 launches including 2 launches of the Russian "Soyuz” rockets.
India performed 3 launches.
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Date: 06.01.2012
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A new book about Space Mail.
Soviet cosmonaut-veteran Viktor Savinykh wrote a book titled "My Space Mail”. The author tells about the Space Mail items from his own collection. The 70-page book has more than 80 illustrations of space mail items.
At the end of December 2011 Chairman of the FIP Section for Astrophilately, Igor Rodin had a meeting with Viktor Savinykh and got a copy of the book as a present from the author.
Cosmonaut Viktor Savinykh is signing the book and several covers for Igor Rodin.
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Date: 06.01.2012
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Russian rocket orbited 6 American satellites.
On December 28, 2011 at 17:09 UTC the Russian "Soyuz – 2.1a” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited 6 American "Globalstar-2” telecommunication satellites.
Globalstar's subscribers use the satellites to place telephone calls and send data messages around the world. Built by Thales Alenia Space, the second-generation satellites feature longer design lives.
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Date: 30.12.2011
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Soyuz TMA-03M successfully docked to ISS.
On December 23, 2011 at 15:19 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-03M” spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the Russian "Rassvet” module of the ISS.
The "Soyuz TMA-03M” crew of Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers and Donald Pettit joined Expedition 30 crew of Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoliy Ivanishin and Daniel Burbank, who arrived at the station on November 13, 2011 by Soyuz TMA-22. Now the Expedition 30 crew consists of 6 persons.
The newcomers will carry out about 40 scientific experiments in orbit. The mission's program also
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Soyuz rocket falls in Siberia after fail launch.
The mishap occurred about seven minutes after the "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier equipped with the "Fregat” booster was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on December 23, 2011 at 12:08 UTC. The Soyuz rocket fell back to Earth a few minutes after launch. The RIA Novosti news agency reported debris was found in the region of Novosibirsk, the third-largest city in Russia. Novosibirsk is about 3000 kilometers southeast of Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The rocket was to orbit the "Meridian” communications satellite for the Russian military.
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Date: 24.12.2011
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China launched a high-resolution mapping satellite.
On December 22, 2011 at 03:26 UTC the Chang Zheng-4B (Long March 4B) rocket-carrier was launched from Taiyuan Cosmodrome in Shanxi province, China. The rocket orbited the "Ziyuan-1-02C” remote sensing satellite.
The spacecraft was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology and is the country's first high-resolution remote sensing satellite. Ziyuan 1-2C carries black-and-white and color cameras to provide officials with imagery for land resource surveys, disaster relief services, agriculture development, forestry, water conservation, environmental monitoring, city planning and other applications.
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Date: 24.12.2011
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-03M manned spacecraft.
On December 21, 2011 at 13:16 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-03M” manned spacecraft with a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier.
The crew of the space vehicle consists of 3 members: Commander – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko; Flight-engineer - European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers (the Netherlands); Flight-engineer - American astronaut Donald Pettit.
photo by Russian Cosmonaut Training Centre
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China launched a Nigerian satellite.
On December 19, 2011 at 16:41 UTC the Chang Zheng-3B/E (Long March) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang space center in Sichuan province of southwest China. The rocket orbited the "Nigcomsat-1” powerful Chinese-built, Nigerian-owned communications satellite to serve Africans with television, education, navigation and security services.
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Date: 22.12.2011
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Russian Soyuz rocket launch from French Guiana.
On December 17, 2011 at 02:30 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-ST-B” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat-MT” booster orbited 6 satellites including 4 French micro radar military spy satellites, the French "Pleiades HR1” high-resolution imaging satellite and the Chilean "Fasat-Charlie” Earth-observation satellite.
The launch was the second-ever of the veteran Soyuz rocket from the European Space Agency’s pad in Kourou, following a successful mission to deliver two European Galileo navigation satellites into orbit via another launcher in October.
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Date: 17.12.2011
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