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 Soyuz TMA-16 / ISS undocking.
On March 18, 2010 the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts undocked from the International Space station at 08:03 UTC.
The space capsule carrying Maxim Surayev of Russia and Jeff Williams of the United States from the ISS Expedition 22 is scheduled to land in central Kazakhstan at approximately 14:23 Moscow time (11:23 UTC).
Work at the ISS will be continued by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and American astronaut Timothy Creamer, until they are joined by Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko
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Date: 18.03.2010
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In 2010 Russian Post issues a cover (postal stationery) devoted to the Cosmonautic Day.
The cover’s picture shows the flight of the "Energia-Buran” space system.
The text in the cover says: 12 April is Cosmonautic Day.
The cover was printed in the paper with watermarks.
Size of the cover 110 X 220 mm.
Print quantity – 2 000 000 copies. |
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Date: 10.03.2010
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Chinese satellite is in orbit.
On March 5, 2010 China successfully put into orbit another remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan IX" at 04:55 UTC (12:55 p.m. Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province.
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The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 4C (Chang Zheng-4C) rocket-carrier and will be used to conduct scientific experiment, carry out surveys on land resources, forecast grain output and help with natural disaster-reduction and prevention endeavor.
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Date: 06.03.2010
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US meteorological satellite is in orbit.
On March 4, 2010 at 23:57 UTC the Delta-4 rocket-carrier with the GOES-P satellite was launched from SLC-37B launch pad of Cape Canaveral, USA.
GOES-P (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) is a meteorological satellite. It is the third in the current series of GOES satellites (GOES N-O-P) and will be commissioned as GOES-15 once in its geostationary orbit. Its designed lifetime is seven years, with fuel for as much as ten years if the lifetime is exceeded. The next generation will be the GOES-R series, scheduled for deployment beginning in 2014.
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Date: 05.03.2010
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3 Russian Glonass satellites are in orbit.
The Russian "Proton-M” rocket-carrier with three Glonass satellites was successfully launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome on March 2, 2010 at 00:19 Moscow time (21:19 UTC, March 1).
Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a few meters.
Russia currently has a total of 22 Glonass satellites in orbit, but only 16 of them are operational. The system requires 18 operational satellites for continuous navigation services covering the entire territory of Russia and at least 24 satellites to provide navigation services worldwide.
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Date: 03.03.2010
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STS-128 up-to-the station letter.
In August-September 2009 American space shuttle STS-128 performed its mission at the International Space Station.
The STS-128 crew delivered several letters addressed to Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, a member of Expedition 20.
First this letter was sent from Vienna, Austria to Houston, USA by registered mail.
The most interesting is that the letter addressed to the International Space Station was sent at the day of the 40th anniversary of the first manned step onto the Moon surface, on July 21, 2009, in according to European time. When
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Date: 28.02.2010
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STS-130 landing.
On February 22, 2010 American space shuttle Endeavour (STS-130 flight) successfully landed at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
The STS-130 crew landed at 03:20 UTC after successfully installing the Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola on the International Space Station. The shuttle’s crew consisted of George Zamka, Terry Vierts, Robert Behnken, Nicolas Patrick, Kathryn Hire and Stephen Robinson spent in space 13 days, 18 hours, 06 minutes and 24 seconds.
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Date: 26.02.2010
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STS-130 / ISS undocking.
American space shuttle Endeavour (STS-130 flight) undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 20, 2010 at 00:54 UTC (at 07:54 p.m. EST on February 19).
The hatches between the shuttle and the ISS were closed at 08:08 UTC on February 19.
The undocking maneuver took place while the shuttle was flying 208 miles above the Atlantic Ocean west of Mauritania and the Western Sahara.
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Date: 26.02.2010
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