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Delta II | NOAA 18

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 20, 2005, 10:22 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NOAA-18, known before launch as NOAA-N, is a weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. NOAA-N (18) was launched on May 20, 2005, into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 854 km above the Earth, with an orbital period of 102 minutes. It hosts the AMSU-A, MHS, AVHRR, Space Environment Monitor SEM/2 instrument and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) instruments, as well as the SBUV/2 ozone-monitoring instrument. It is the first NOAA POES satellite to use MHS in place of AMSU-B. NOAA-18 also hosts Cospas-Sarsat payloads.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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PSLV | Cartosat-1

Indian Space Research Organization | India
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
May 5, 2005, 4:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Cartosat-1 or IRS-P5 is a stereoscopic Earth observation satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit, and the first one of the Cartosat series of satellites. The eleventh satellite of ISRO in IRS series.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Titan 405B | NROL-16

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 30, 2005, 12:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Amateur observors believed this to be the fifth in the Lacrosse/Onyx radar spy satellite series built by Lockheed Martin.

Low Earth Orbit
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Zenit | Spaceway 1

Sea Launch | Russia
Sea Launch
April 26, 2005, 7:31 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Hughes Network Systems is developing a global satellite network named Spaceway, which will provide high-bandwidth and high-speed communications for broadband and multimedia applications.

Geostationary Orbit
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Pegasus XL | Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART)

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Air launch to orbit
April 15, 2005, 5:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-6

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 15, 2005, 12:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz TMA-6 begins Expedition 11 by carrying 3 astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station. Russian Commander, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev alongside Flight Engineers, John Phillips (NASA) & Roberto Vittori (ESA) will launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and then rendezvous with the station. It landed on October 11, 2005, 01:09:00 UTC

Low Earth Orbit
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Long March 3B | Apstar 6

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 12, 2005, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Communications Ku and C band transponders.

Geostationary Orbit
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Minotaur I | XSS-11

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 11, 2005, 1:35 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

USA-165 or XSS-11 (Experimental Satellite System-11) is a small, washing-machine-sized, low-cost spacecraft developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate to test technology for proximity operations.

Low Earth Orbit
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Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-2

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 29, 2005, 9:31 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Ekspress-AM 2 and 3 series are communications satellites for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years.

Geostationary Orbit
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Atlas V 431 | INMARSAT 4 F1

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 11, 2005, 9:42 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Heaviest single payload to geosynchronous transfer orbit to that date. The satellite was to provide L-band mobile communications and wideband data transmission for Inmarsat's global network.

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
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