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Delta 8930 | DM-F3

Boeing | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 23, 2000, 11:05 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

DM-F3 (Delta Mission Flight Three) is a simulated payload made up of steel and aluminum plates and cylinders that produce the same dynamic characteristics and mass properties of a Hughes HS-601 satellite.

Elliptical Orbit
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Titan 403B | NROL-11

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 17, 2000, 11:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Onyx (formerly known as Lacrosse) satellites are terrestrial radar imaging reconnaissance satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Low Earth Orbit
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Ariane 44LP | Brasilsat B4 & Nilesat 102

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Aug. 17, 2000, 11:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Brazilian and Egyptian communications satellites.

Geostationary Orbit
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Soyuz-U-PVB | Cluster Rumba & Tango

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 9, 2000, 11:13 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Cluster is an magnetospheric research project, consisting of a constellation of four identical satellites. Part of the first Cornerstone Mission in the European Space Agency's long-term space science programme, the Cluster II satellites were built to replace the original Cluster mission, which was aborted after Ariane-5G's maiden flight in June 1996 failed to launch the satellites. The mission's objective is to research the Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar winds, via four identical satellites flying in formation which take simultaneous measurements to provide the most detailed three-dimensional study of changes and processes taking place in near-Earth space. The four satellites were launched in 2000 on two Soyuz-U Fregat rockets.

Elliptical Orbit
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Soyuz U | Progress M1-3

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 6, 2000, 6:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Zenit | PAS 9

Sea Launch | Russia
Sea Launch
July 28, 2000, 10:42 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

PAS-9 was one of three HS-601HP satellites ordered Oct. 12, 1998, from Hughes Space and Communications Company (HSC) by PanAmSat Corporation. The satellite provides broadcast and general communications services in C- and Ku-band for the Americas, the Caribbean and western Europe, plus direct-to-home services for Mexico in Ku-band.

Geostationary Orbit
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Minotaur I | Sindri

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 19, 2000, 8:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mightysat 2.1 (meaning first flight of the series-2 version) is an military minisatellite to test / demonstrate components for future utilization. The 130 kg spacecraft carries two kinds of hardware for tests.

Polar Orbit
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Soyuz-U-PVB | Cluster Salsa & Samba

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 16, 2000, 12:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Cluster is an magnetospheric research project, consisting of a constellation of four identical satellites. Part of the first Cornerstone Mission in the European Space Agency's long-term space science programme, the Cluster II satellites were built to replace the original Cluster mission, which was aborted after Ariane-5G's maiden flight in June 1996 failed to launch the satellites. The mission's objective is to research the Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar winds, via four identical satellites flying in formation which take simultaneous measurements to provide the most detailed three-dimensional study of changes and processes taking place in near-Earth space. The four satellites were launched in 2000 on two Soyuz-U Fregat rockets.

Elliptical Orbit
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Delta II | GPS IIR-5

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 16, 2000, 9:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

GPS-2R (Global Positioning System) or Navstar-2R (Navigation System using Timing And Ranging) are the third evolution stage of the second generation of the GPS satellites.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | CHAMP & MITA

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
July 15, 2000, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

CHAMP (Challenging Mini-Satellite Payload) is a German small satellite mission for geoscientific and atmospheric research and applications, managed by GFZ. MITA carries the payload NINA-2 for the study of solar and galactic cosmic rays. The detector used in this mission is identical to the one already flying on the Russian satellite Resurs-O1 4 in a 840 km sunsynchronous orbit, but makes use of the extensive computer and telemetry capabilities of MITA bus to improve the active data acquisition time.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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