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 China launched 2 satellites.
On December 15, 2009 at 02:31 UTC China launched its first public-welfare mini satellite.
Hope I was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province along with a remote-sensing satellite Yaogan VIII both on board a Chang Zheng-4B rocket-carrier.
The Hope I satellite will be used by students in China to study and experience aerospace science and technology.
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Date: 16.12.2009
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Russia launched 3 navigation satellites.
On December 14, 2009 at 10:38 UTC a Proton M booster rocket with three Glonass M navigation satellites was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.
They were named as Kosmos-2456, Kosmos-2457 and Kosmos-2458.
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Date: 16.12.2009
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American space telescope launch.
On December 14, 2009 at 14:09 UTC a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket successfully boosted the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) space telescope into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The two-stage rocket-carrier deployed the craft into an orbit 325 miles above Earth. NASA promises to discover millions of objects never seen before and revolutionize our view of the Universe.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will use advanced technologies to scan the sky with the clarity of a modern digital camera to reveal asteroids, comets, brown dwarfs, ultraluminous galaxies and new born stars that humans haven't laid eyes on.
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Date: 16.12.2009
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Rocket launch from New Zealand.
 photo by Rocket Lab
On November 30, 2009 the Manu Karere rocket was lifted off at 2.28 p.m. (local time) from Great Mercury Island (New Zealand) and performed an exemplary 22 second burn.
It was a 6-metre-long, 60kg rocket Atea-1. The rocket reached its target speed of up to Mach 5, or 5000 km/h, reaching at least 100 km altitude and spent between 10 and 20 minutes in the sky before splashing down.
The rocket was named Manu Karere which means Bird Messenger. The rocket was made by the Rocket Lab private company.
It is the first time a privately-owned rocket has been launched in the southern hemisphere.
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Date: 10.12.2009
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Soyuz TMA-15 landing.
Soyuz TMA-15 landing capsule. photo by Reuters
Roman Romanenko just after landing. photo by Reuters
On December 1, 2009 the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft with Russian
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Date: 01.12.2009
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Soyuz TMA-15 / ISS undocking.
On December 1, 2009 the Soyuz TMA-15 undocked from the ISS at 03:56 UTC with Russian Roman Romanenko, Belgian Frank De Winne and Canadian Robert Thirsk on board.
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Date: 01.12.2009
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Russian rocket orbited a U.S. telecommunications satellite.
On November 30, 2009 Russian Zenit-3SLB rocket-carrier successfully put into orbit the American Intelsat-15 telecommunications satellite.
The launch was performed from Baykonur Cosmodrome by "Roskosmos” teams at 21.00 UTC.
The Zenit-3SLB is a modernized three-stage version of the Zenit-3SL, used on Sea Launch's floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, developed for land-based launches.
Intelsat-15 was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and is designed to replace the Intelsat-709 satellite. Intelsat-15 will provide telecommunications services for the Middle East and Russia.
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Date: 01.12.2009
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Japan orbits satellite to spy on North Korea.
On November 28, 2009 Japan successfully orbited an information gathering satellite.
A Japanese H-2A rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 10:21 a.m. local time (01:21 GMT).
Japan's national space agency JAXA launched the satellite, the third of its kind, to replace an earlier model. Japan spent $566 million to design the satellite, and it cost another $109 million to build and launch the rocket.
China's Xinhua news agency said the satellite whose digital cameras can identify objects of around 60 cm in size from space would reportedly be used to watch missile and military developments in North Korea.
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Date: 28.11.2009
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STS-129 landing.
 photo NASAOn November 27, 2009 the "Atlantis” American space shuttle (STS-129) landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 14:44 UTC (9:44 a.m. EST).
The crew, led by U.S. astronaut Charles Hobaugh, spent a week at the station, delivering equipment including gyroscopes, thermal control components, and an oxygen tank, and carried out three spacewalks to install devices and conduct repairs.
For the return journey, the crew was joined by ISS flight engineer Nicole Stott, who had been on board the orbital station for three months.<
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Date: 28.11.2009
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