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 India failed to launch a rocket-carrier.
On December 25, 2010 at 10:34 UTC Indian GSLV-F06 rocket-carrier blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota Cosmodrome) on Sriharikota Island on the east coast of India. The GSLV poised for launch. photo by ISRO Trouble struck the rocket less than a minute after liftoff, when video footage showed the vehicle veering from its flight path, tumbling out of control and being engulfed in a fireball. The rocket was carrying GSAT 5P, the largest satellite ever launched by an Indian booster. GSAT 5P was designed to replace an aging satellite and extend television and telephone services across India. Saturday's mi
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Date: 27.12.2010
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China launched a navigation satellite.
On December 17, 2010 at 20:20 (UTC) the "Long March 3A” (Chang Zheng-3A) rocket-carrier was launched from Xichang Cosmodrome in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The rocket orbited the "Beidou” (Compass) navigation satellite.
It is the seventh operational Beidou satellite launched since 2007. Five Beidou space vehicles have been sent into orbit this year.
The Beidou, or Compass, network should be ready to provide positioning and navigation services for China and neighboring countries by 2012. Global service should be available from up to 35 Beidou satellites by 2020, according to Chinese officials. The Beidou fleet will provide Chinese military and citizens an indigenous source of precise navigation information. The country currently relies on the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System.
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Date: 19.12.2010
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Soyuz TMA-20 docked with the ISS.
On December 17, 2010 at 20:12 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-20” spacecraft docked with the ISS.
The Soyuz TMA-20 carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitriy Kondratjev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli (Italy) and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman (USA) successfully docked in automatic mode to the MRM-1 ("Rassvet”) module.
Aboard the station the Soyuz TMA-20 crew was welcomed by their colleagues Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Scott Kelly who had been working aboard the ISS since October 2010.
Photo by NASA TV.
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Soyuz TMA-20 launch.
On December 15, 2010 at 19:09 UTC the "Soyuz FG” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket-carrier orbited the "Soyuz TMA-20” spacecraft with the crew – commander Dmitriy KONDRATJEV (Russia); flight-engineer Catherine COLEMAN (USA); flight-engineer Paolo NESPOLI (Italy).
photo of Russian Cosmonaut Training Center
The space vehicle is to carry the crew to the International Space Station. The "Soyuz TMA-20” spacecraft is to dock with the ISS at about 9 p.m. UTC on December 17, 2010. The "Soyuz TMA-20” crew will join their colleagues Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Scott Kelly wh
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FIP Section for Astrophilately.
On December 10, 2010 in Vienna, Austria an informal meeting of the Chairman and the Secretary of the FIP Section of Astrophilately took place.
The plan of the Section’s activity in the period of 2010 – 2012 was discussed.
Jaromir Matejka and Igor Rodin also discussed the question concerning appropriate philatelic material for Astrophilatelic exhibits.
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Date: 12.12.2010
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Dragon capsule back on Earth after whirlwind test flight.
On December 8, 2010 at 15:43 UTC (10:43 EST) the Falcon 9 rocket was launched by SpaceX company from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk.
SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (a Dragon).
The rocket orbited the "Dragon” spacecraft. It was the first test flight of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project. The Dragon circled Earth tw
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Date: 12.12.2010
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Three Glonass-M satellites failed to be orbited.
On December 5, 2010 at 10:25 UTC the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket-carrier with upper DM-3 booster was to orbit three Glonass-M satellites.
Being in flight, the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier deviated from its course to 8 degrees, which resulted later in a loss of three satellites. Three Glonass-M satellites fell into a non-navigational area of the Pacific Ocean in some 1500 kilometers northwest of the city of Honolulu, administrative center of the state of Hawaii, USA.
Glonass is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a few meters.
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Date: 06.12.2010
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Russian National Academy of Philately.
On December 03, 2010 at the General Congress of Russian National Academy of Philately the Chairman of the FIP Section for Astrophilately, Igor Rodin became a member of the Academy.
Mr. Andrey Strygin, President of Russian National Academy of Philately handed over the Diploma of the Academy to Igor Rodin.
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Date: 05.12.2010
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American space plane landed.
On December 03, 2010 at 09:16 UTC (04:16 EST) the U.S. Air Force's X-37B unmanned space plane returned back to Earth. The plane touched down on the runway of Vandenberg U.S. Air Force base.
The X-37B, also called the Orbital Test Vehicle, has been in space since launching aboard an Atlas 5 rocket on April 22, 2010 April from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
US Air Force photo
The Air Force stopped discussing the progress of the mission a few minutes after liftoff. The space plane's activities in orbit have been classified.
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Date: 04.12.2010
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Several pictures were added to the news published in the web on October 24 regarded to the 75th anniversary of cosmonaut German Titov's bithday. Look here.
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Date: 04.12.2010
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