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Titan 402B IUS | DSP 20
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 8, 2000, 4:01 p.m.
Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4KS1M 9
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 3, 2000, 1:25 p.m.
Atlas IIA | GOES 11
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 3, 2000, 7:07 a.m.
Soyuz U | Progress M1-2
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 25, 2000, 8:08 p.m.
Ariane 42L | Galaxy 4R
Aérospatiale | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
April 19, 2000, 12:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Galaxy 4R, a Hughes HS-601HP or "high power" spacecraft, provides broadcast and telecommunications service to North America, with the capability to provide back-up services to Latin America. The satellite was built on an expedited basis.
Geostationary Orbit
Proton-K/DM-2M | Sesat
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 17, 2000, 9:06 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The SESAT 1 (Siberia - Europe SATellite) provides a wide range of telecommunications services over a very large geographical coverage area extending from the Atlantic Ocean to Eastern Russia, including a large part of Siberia. The satellite also provides similar services within the Indian Sub-Continent by means of a Steerable Spotbeam. Sharing the 36° East orbital position with the Eutelsat W4 satellite, SESAT contributes to the development of international, regional and domestic services, such as thin route telephony, corporate and specialised data services and long distance trunk telephony. It facilitates the development of new markets in far eastern Europe and southern Asia for all types of telecommunication and business services, as well as providing full interconnectivity with western and central Europe.
Geostationary OrbitSoyuz-U | Soyuz TM-30
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 4, 2000, 5:01 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz TM-30 was the 39th mission and the 28th long-duration expedition to Mir space station. It was the final human spaceflight to Mir. The mission began on April 4, 2000, 05:01:29 UTC, launching Commander Sergei Zalyotin and Flight Engineer Aleksandr Kaleri into orbit. They docked with Mir two days later. During their stay there, cosmonauts performed an EVA and various maintenance and repair tasks. Station crew was visited by several Progress resupply spacecrafts. The mission was privately funded by MirCorp company, which planned to refurbish and privatize the aging Mir space station, however insufficient funding and investment made these plans impossible to come true. The mission concluded with a safe landing back on Earth on June 16, 2000, 00:44 UTC.
Low Earth OrbitDelta 7326-9.5 | IMAGE
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 25, 2000, 8:34 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
Elliptical Orbit
Ariane 5 G | INSAT-3B & AsiaStar
ArianeGroup | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
March 21, 2000, 11:28 p.m.
Soyuz-U-PVB | Dumsat
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 20, 2000, 6:28 p.m.
