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Soyuz U | Soyuz TM-33

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 21, 2001, 8:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz TM-33 was a visiting mission to ISS, which carried 3 cosmonauts and astronauts. Russian Commander, cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev alongside Flight Engineer, ESA astronaut Claudie Haigneré and Flight Engineer/Spaceflight Participant, Konstantin Kozeyev launched aboard the Soyuz spacecraft on October 21, 2001, 08:59:35 UTC. They docked with the station two days later. During their stay there, crew assisted Expedition 3 members in station work. Soyuz TM-33 crew returned aboard Soyuz TM-32, landing safely back on Earth on October 31, 2001, 05:00:00 UTC.

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Delta II | QuickBird 2

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 18, 2001, 6:51 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The QuickBird commercial imaging satellite was owned by DigitalGlobe (formerly EarthWatch) and used a Ball BCP2000 bus with a launch mass of 1028 kg and a dry mass of about 995 kg.

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Atlas IIAS | NROL-12

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 11, 2001, 2:32 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The primary purpose of the SDS satellites is to relay imagery from low-flying reconnaissance satellites, notably the Keyhole optical reconnaissance and Lacrosse/Onyx radar reconnaissance satellites to ground stations in the United States.

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton | Raduga-1 6

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 6, 2001, 4:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military geostationary communications satellite

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Titan 404B | NROL-14

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 2001, 9:21 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-11 reconnaissance satellite

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Athena I | Starshine-OSCAR-43

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
Sept. 30, 2001, 2:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Research (Atmospheric density) satellite built by Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for NASA, USA.

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Ariane 44P | Atlantic Bird 2

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Sept. 25, 2001, 11:21 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Alcatel Space has built Atlantic Bird 2 (26 channels in Ku Band for this Spacebus 3000 B2 Satellite) for Eutelsat. By meeting a rapid delivery schedule (16 month on ground delivery), which is made possible by an advanced production policy for the Spacebus-3000B2 platform, Alcatel Space has enabled Eutelsat to meet crucial back-up service requirements while expanding digital and multimedia services. In addition to the on-ground delivery of Atlantic Bird 2, Alcatel Space's prime contract with Eutelsat provides for the satellite's launch campaign, as well support for its operations and mission analysis.

Geosynchronous Orbit
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Taurus 2110 | OrbView-4

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 21, 2001, 6:49 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Orbview 4 was a high resolution commercial Earth imaging satellite imagery. OrbView 4's imaging instrument was to provide one-meter panchromatic imagery and four-meter multispectral imagery. OrbView 4 was lost in an launch failure, when the Taurus-2110 carrier rocket suffered an loss of control, which was recovered, but orbit was not achieved.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz U | Progress M-SO1

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 14, 2001, 11:34 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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


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Atlas IIAS | NROL-13

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 8, 2001, 3:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NOSS-3 (Naval Ocean Surveillance System), which is likely not the official designation, is the third generation of NOSS satellites, which are low orbit SIGINT satellites. In 2013, the designation Intruder leaked out. These satellites carry equipment to track ships and aircraft via their radio transmissions. Positions of the origin of the transmissions are determined by triangulation. Each launch consists of two satellites of similar size in the same orbit. Both satellites maneuver to stationkeep relative to one another.

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