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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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Atlas IIAS | Echostar VI

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 14, 2000, 5:21 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

EchoStar V and VI are series of two high-powered direct broadcast satellites (DBS) being built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for EchoStar Communications Corporation.

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton | Zvezda

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 12, 2000, 4:56 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Service Module SM (Zvesda, DOS 8 (Dolgovremennaya Orbitalnaya Stanziya 8), 17KSM) was the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station and serves as the early cornerstone for the first human habitation of the station.

Low Earth Orbit
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Proton | Potok 10

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 4, 2000, 11:44 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary military relay satellite

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton-K/DM-2M | Sirius FM-1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 30, 2000, 10:08 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

American communications satellite.

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas IIA | TDRS 8

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 30, 2000, 12:56 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

American communications satellite.

Geostationary Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 9

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 28, 2000, 10:37 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Civilian navigation satellite equivalent to the purely military Parus

Low Earth Orbit
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