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Dnepr | AATiS-OSCAR-49

ISC Kosmotras | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 20, 2002, 5 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Technology satellite for OHB-System, Germany.

Low Earth Orbit
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Ariane 44L | NSS 6

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 17, 2002, 11:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

he Dutch New Skies Satellites' NSS-6 telecommunications spacecraft was developed by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems.

Geostationary Orbit
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H-IIA 202 | Midori-2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Dec. 14, 2002, 1:31 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Midori II has been engaged in various observation missions to understand the realities and causes of global environmental changes, such as abnormal weather conditions and the expansion of the ozone hole.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 5 ECA | Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 11, 2002, 10:21 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Hot Bird 7 was a French communications satellite for direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit at a longitude of 13 degrees East. Stentor is an experimental programme to validate technologies to be integrated into the next generation of telecommunications spacecraft.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Atlas IIA | TDRS 10

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 5, 2002, 2:42 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The third and final Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite satellite separated from the Centaur upper stage 30 minutes after launch. This completed the $800 million, three satellite contract.

Geosynchronous Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | AlSat-1

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 28, 2002, 6:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ALSAT 1 was an Algerian imaging minisatellite. The 90-kg satellite was the first part of an international Disaster Monitoring System (DMS) for alerting natural/man-made disasters.

Polar Orbit
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Proton-K/DM-2M | Astra 1K

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 25, 2002, 11:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Astra 1K was a communications satellite manufactured by Alcatel Space for SES.

Geostationary Orbit
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Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-113

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 24, 2002, 12:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station on 25 November 2002 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers. This was Endeavour’s last flight before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until 2007, and also the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster.

Low Earth Orbit
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Delta IV M+(4,2) | Eutelsat W5

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 20, 2002, 10:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

EUTELSAT W5 was a European (EUTELSAT Consortium) geostationary communication spacecraft. EUTELSAT W5 was to provide voice, video, and Internet services to all countries in western Europe, central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent

Geosynchronous Orbit
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Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-1

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 30, 2002, 3:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz TMA-1 covers Expedition 5 and 6 by carrying 3 astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station. Russian Commander, cosmonaut Sergei Zalyotin alongside Flight Engineers, Frank De Winne (ESA) & Yury Lonchakov (RSA) will launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and then rendezvous with the station. The landing crew on TMA-1 are Commander Nikolai Budarin (RSA) and Flight Engineers Kenneth Bowersox (ESA), Donald Pettit (NASA). It landed on May 4, 2003, 02:04:25 UTC

Low Earth Orbit
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