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Minotaur 4 orbited 10 satellites.
On November 20, 2010 at 01:25 UTC the Minotaur 4 rocket-carrier was launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Instead of a nuclear payload, the tip of the Minotaur holds ten satellites.
STPSat-2 (135 kilograms) – for technology experiments.
Falconsat-5 (161 kilograms) – for ionosphere research.
Fastsat-HSV – for ionosphere research.
Fastrac 1 (30 kilograms) – to study flight characteristics.
Fastrac 2 (30 kilograms) – to study flight characteristics.
O/OREOS (3 kilograms)
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Date: 21.11.2010
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Russian cosmonauts performed a spacewalk.
The cosmonauts left the ISS via the "Pirs” docking compartment airlock. The primary assembly and maintenance objectives of the spacewalk were to install a multipurpose workstation on the starboard side of the Zvezda service module, to clean thermal insulation around the vents for the Elektron oxygen-generation system and to relocate a television camera from one end of the Rassvet docking compartment to the other.
photo NASA
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Date: 19.11.2010
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Progress M-05M deorbited.
On November 15, 2010 the Progress M-05M autonomous mission was completed. The space vehicle’s main engine was started for deorbiting at 08:50 UTC. The Progress M-05M entered the atmosphere and burnt down over the Pacific. Remaining parts of the Progress, not burnt during the reentry fell down into the south area of the Pacific at about 09:37 UTC.
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Date: 19.11.2010
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American satellite launched by Russian rocket.
On November 14, 2010 at 17:29 UTC the Russian "Proton M” rocket-carrier with the "Briz-M” upper stage was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.
The rocket orbited the American MSV-1 (Mobile Satellite Ventures 1) [SkyTerra 1] communication satellite.
The MSV 1/SkyTerra1 with its flight mass of 5390 kilograms is designed and fabricated by Boeing Satellite Systems for the U.S. operator Light Squared. The launch services were contracted by International Launch Services Inc. (ILV), Reston, VA.
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Date: 19.11.2010
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Italian satellite was launched from USA.
On November 06, 2010 at 02:20 UTC the "Delta-2” rocket-carrier was launched by the United Launch Alliance company from the US Air Force Vandenberg spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The rocket orbited COSMO-4 SkyMed Italian reconnaissance satellite.
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Date: 10.11.2010
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Astrophilately – 25 years. Today.
25 years ago on November 5, 1985 at the FIP Congress in Rome, on the occasion of ITALIA’85 World Philatelic Exhibition, a motion of the FIP Board to create a Section for Astrophilately within the Commission for Aerophilately was approved by the Congress.
On the initiative of Mr. Umberto Cavallaro, President of ASITAF – Italian Astrophilately Society, Italian Delegate of the FIP Section for Astrophilately, Poste Italiane issued a special cancellation devoted to the event.
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Date: 05.11.2010
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China launched a meteorological satellite.
On November 04, 2010 at 18:37 UTC the "Chang Zheng-4C” rocket-carrier
with the "Feng Yun-3B” meteorological satellite was launched from the Taiyuan
Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province.
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Date: 05.11.2010
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Russian military satellite launch.
On November 2, 2010 the "Soyuz-2.1 a” rocket-carrier and the "Fregat”
upper stage orbited the "Meridian” Russian military communication satellite.The rocket was launched at 01:01 UTC from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. It was the third Meridian
satellite launched since 2006. The Meridian satellites are replacements for
Molniya communications satellites providing coverage of high latitude polar
regions of Russia.
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Date: 05.11.2010
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ISS – 10 years in piloted regime.
10 years ago on October 31, 2000 the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft with Expedition 1 crew on board was launched to the International Space Station.
Soyuz TM-31 launch cover
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China launched Beidou satellite.
On October 31, 2010 at 16:26 UTC, the Chang Zheng-3В (Long March) rocket-carrier was launched from Xichang Cosmodrome, Sichuan province, southwestern China. Photo of China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
The rocket orbited the Chinese "Beidou” (Compass) navigation satellite.
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Date: 02.11.2010
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