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Ariane 44L | NSS 7

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
April 16, 2002, 11:02 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ariane mission V150 placed Lockheed Martin A2100-class satellite NSS 7 satellite into orbit. The satellite was owned by New Skies, an Intelsat spinoff, and carried a C/Ku band telecoms payload.

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-110

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 8, 2002, 8:44 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-110 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8–19 April 2002 flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. The main purpose was to install the S0 Truss segment, which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the station.

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | US-K 81

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 1, 2002, 10:06 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Early warning satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Proton-K/DM-2M | INTELSAT 903

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 30, 2002, 5:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Intelsat 903 (or IS-903[1]) is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat.

Geostationary Orbit
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Ariane 44L | JCSAT 2A

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
March 29, 2002, 1:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Japanese domestic communications

Geosynchronous Orbit
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Long March 2F | Shenzhou-3

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 25, 2002, 2:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Third test flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft, without crew on board. Main objective of the mission was to test the systems required to support a human in space. A human dummy was carried in the descent module to simulate the physiological signals of a human. 44 different experiments were carried, including an imaging spectrograph, cloud sensor, radiation sensor, solar ultraviolet monitor, solar constant monitor, atmospheric composition detector, atmospheric density detector, multi-chamber space crystallization furnace, space protein crystal equipment, a cell bioreactor, a solid matter tracking detector, and a microgravity gauge. Also on board was a video camera that broadcast images of the Earth as seen through one of the windows on the spacecraft.

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz U | Progress M1-8

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 21, 2002, 8:13 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Rokot / Briz-KM | GRACE

Russian Aerospace Defence Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 17, 2002, 9:21 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) was a joint mission of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Twin satellites took detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies from its launch in March 2002 to the end of its science mission in October 2017.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas IIA | TDRS 9

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 8, 2002, 10:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

TDRS-9, known before launch as TDRS-I, is an American communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development Center, formerly Hughes Space and Communications, and is based on the BSS-601 satellite bus.[3] It was the second Advanced TDRS, or second-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, to be launched.

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-109

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 1, 2002, 11:22 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-109 (SM3B) was a Space Shuttle mission that launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 1 March 2002. It was the 108th mission of the Space Shuttle program, the 27th flight of the orbiter Columbia and the fourth servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was also the last successful mission of the orbiter Columbia before the ill-fated STS-107 mission, which culminated in the Columbia disaster.

Low Earth Orbit
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