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TACTICAL MILITARY SATELLITE DUE FOR LAUNCH TODAY
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The U.S. Air Force plans to launch a $226 million mission aboard a
Minotaur rocket tonight to reshape how deployed forces receive battlefield
imagery from space, a breakthrough in the Pentagon's program to field
tactical satellites on smaller budgets and faster schedules. Liftoff is
scheduled for 8:28 p.m. EDT (0028 GMT) from Wallops Island, Va.

PREVIEW STORY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ors1/110627preview/

LIVE UPDATES IN OUR MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ors1/status.html


STATION CREW 'SHELTERS IN PLACE' FOR DEBRIS THREAT
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The six-member crew of the International Space Station was told to seek
shelter in two Russian Soyuz spacecraft this morning because of a
predicted close approach by an unknown piece of space debris. But the time
of closest approach came and went harmlessly at 8:08 a.m. EDT.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/110628iss/


NEXT GPS SATELLITE MOVES TO CAPE CANAVERAL LAUNCH PAD
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A Global Positioning System satellite has been loaded aboard its ride to
space, arriving Monday at Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 for mounting atop
the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d355/110627payload.html


SOYUZ ROCKET LIFTS OFF WITH RUSSIAN SPY SATELLITE
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A Soyuz rocket launched Monday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern
Russia with a top secret Russian photo reconnaissance satellite to spy on
strategic sites around the world.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1106/27soyuz/


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