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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.

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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..

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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.

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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..

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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..

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Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 29, 2004, 10:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Ekspress-AM 1 is a communications satellite for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads is built by NEC.

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Long March 3A | Feng Yun 2C

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 19, 2004, 1:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Third Fengyun-2 weather satellite. The apogee motor placed the satellite into a drifting geostationary orbit.

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Proton-M Briz-M | AMC 15

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 2004, 9:23 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A communications satellite that belonged to SES Americom

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Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-5

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 2004, 3:06 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz TMA-5 begins Expedition 10 by carrying 3 astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station. Russian Commander, cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov alongside Flight Engineers, Leroy Chiao (NASA) & Yuri Shargin (RSA) will launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and then rendezvous with the station. It landed on April 24, 2005, 22:08 UTC

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Long March 2D | Fanhui Shi Weixing (20)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 27, 2004, 8 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Recoverable military satellite. Returned to Earth at 02:48 GMT on October 15, falling through the roof of a house in the village of Penglai, Sichuan province..

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