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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF17
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 26, 2012, noon
Atlas V 401 | NROL-38 (SDS) (USA-236)
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 20, 2012, 12:28 p.m.
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou-9 & Shenzhou-9-GC
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
June 16, 2012, 10:37 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
This is the fourth crewed mission for China's Shenzhou program which lasted 12 days. Being the first crewed spacecraft to visit the Tiangong-1 space station, it brought up the astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and the first Chinese female astronaut Lie Yang. They docked automatically to the station on 18 June. During their stay in the station, astronauts conducted various scientific and technological experiments, and performed manual re-docking on 24 June. Shenzhou 9 undocked on 29 June and landed safely back on Earth the same day.
Low Earth Orbit
Pegasus XL | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of AmericaAir launch to orbit
June 13, 2012, 4 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Designed to image high-energy X-ray radiation, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is tasked with surveying regions surrounding the center of own Milky Way Galaxy and performing deep observations of the extragalactic sky, studying black holes and supernovas.
Low Earth Orbit
Zenit 3SL | Intelsat 19
Sea Launch | RussiaSea Launch
June 1, 2012, 5:22 a.m.
Long March 4C | Yaogan 15
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
May 29, 2012, 7:31 a.m.
Long March 3B/E | Chinasat-2A
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
May 26, 2012, 3:56 p.m.
Safir 1B | Fajr
Iranian Space Agency | IranSemnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
May 23, 2012, midnight
Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 22, 2012, 7:44 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 (COTS 2), was the second test-flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched on the third flight of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was performed under a funded agreement from NASA as the second Dragon demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The purpose of the COTS program is to develop and demonstrate commercial sources for cargo re-supply of the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon C2+ spacecraft was the first American vehicle to visit the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program. It was also the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with another spacecraft.
Low Earth Orbit B0005 - Maiden Flight Atlantic Ocean
Proton-M Briz-M | Nimiq 6
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 17, 2012, 7:12 p.m.
