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Tsiklon-3 | Sich-1M

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 24, 2004, 11:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Ukranian-built remote sensing satellite. Third stage apogee kick burn was too short, raising the perigee of the orbit from 78 km to 280 km, rather than the 650 km planned..

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz U | Progress M-51

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 23, 2004, 10:19 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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

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Delta IV Heavy | Demosat and 3CS-1 & 2

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 21, 2004, 9:50 p.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Unknown Mission

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

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Ariane 5 G+ | Helios 2A, Essaim 1, 2, 3, 4, PARASOL, Nanosat 01

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 18, 2004, 4:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Helios and Essaim are French miltary satellites for observation of Earth. Parasol is an Earth Observation research satellite.Nanosat 01 is a small technologu demonstator for the spanish space agency INTA.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Atlas V 521 | AMC 16

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 17, 2004, 12:07 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

AMC-16, like AMC-15, was a hybrid Ku/Ka-band satellite built by Lockheed Martin and based on the A2100 spacecraft platform.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Delta II | Swift

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 20, 2004, 5:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NASA Medium-class Explorer satellite dedicated to study of gamma ray bursts, the third after the IMAGE and WMAP satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
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Long March 2C | Shiyan Weixing 2

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Nov. 18, 2004, 10:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Remote Sensing Technology..

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1a | GVM Oblik

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 8, 2004, 5:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Oblik-Dummy was Zenit-8 (Oblik) spy sat, which has been in storage long beyond its service live and was converted to an instrumented dummy payload for the maiden launch of the new Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle. The photographic equipment was removed and the vehicle was fitted with vibration and thermal sensors designed to measure the launch environment of the new launch vehicle.

Low Earth Orbit
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Delta II | GPS IIR-13

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 6, 2004, 5:39 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Launch delayed from September 22, October 8, 25 and 30, November 5. Fired its apogee motor at around 02:40 GMT on November 9 to transfer from its initial 159 x 20380 km x 39.1 deg transfer orbit to its operational orbit in the GPS constellation..

Medium Earth Orbit
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Long March 4B | Zi Yuan 2-3

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Nov. 6, 2004, 3:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zi Yuan 2-3 was a low earth orbit digital imaging spacecraft used by the Chinese government, probably for both civilian and military reconnaissance purposes..

Low Earth Orbit
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