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Ariane 5 G | Atlantic Bird 1 & Meteosat 8

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Aug. 28, 2002, 10:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Atlantic Bird is a series of satellites operated by Eutelsat over the atlantic ocean. Operating at 12.5 degrees West. Meteosat 8 is a weather satellite operated by both ESA and EUMETSAT.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Proton-K/DM-2M | Echostar VIII

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 22, 2002, 5:15 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

EchoStar VIII was an American geostationary communications satellite which is operated by EchoStar. It is positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 77° West, from where it is used to provide high-definition television direct broadcasting services to the Contiguous United States.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Atlas V 401 | Hot Bird 6

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 21, 2002, 10:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Eutelsat 8 West C, known as Hot Bird 6 prior to 2012 and Hot Bird 13A from 2012 to 2013, is a French communications satellite. Operated by Eutelsat, it provides direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Proton-K/17S40 | Araks-N 2

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 25, 2002, 3:13 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

This was the second launch of the Arkon-1 electro-optical reconnaissance. The 17S40 Blok DM5 upper stage and satellite were placed by the Proton into a parking orbit. The DM then made two burns to place the satellite in its 1500 x 1836 km x 64.4 deg operational orbit.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Strela-3 131 & 132

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
July 8, 2002, 6:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation store-dump military communications satellites

Low Earth Orbit
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Ariane 5 G | Stellat 5 & N-Star C

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
July 5, 2002, 11:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Stellat 5 is a communications satellite belonging to Eutelsat, operating at 5 degrees West. N-Star C is a geostationary communications satellite operating at 136 degrees East.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Delta 7425-9.5 | Contour

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 3, 2002, 6:47 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) probe, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), began its five year mission to explore three comets, using repeated encounters with the earth to modify its orbit in order to reach each target.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz U | Progress M-46

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 26, 2002, 5:36 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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

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Titan II SLV | NOAA 17

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 24, 2002, 6:23 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NOAA M carried weather imagers and microwave and infrared sounders, as well as a SARSAT search-and-rescue package. It had an on-orbit mass of 1475 kg.

Polar Orbit
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Rokot / Briz-KM | Iridium 97 & 98

Russian Aerospace Defence Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 20, 2002, 9:33 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over the entire Earth surface.

Low Earth Orbit
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