Russian and Chinese launches fail / NASA's Moon mappers on the pad

NEWSALERT: Friday, August 19, 2011 @ 1847 GMT
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NASA'S TWIN LUNAR MAPPERS MOVED TO THE LAUNCH PAD
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After 55 years of launches, the historic Complex 17 at the Cape Canaveral
received what could be its final satellite payload Thursday morning when
NASA's twin Moon-mapper probes arrived for mounting atop the Delta 2
rocket.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d356/status.html


POWERFUL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FEARED LOST IN SPACE
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Russia lost contact with a Breeze M upper stage and a powerful
communications satellite Thursday, hours after the duo blasted off from
Kazakhstan on a Proton rocket.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1108/17proton/


CHINESE ROCKET FAILS TO ORBIT EXPERIMENTAL SATELLITE
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A Chinese Long March rocket failed to orbit an experimental Shijian
satellite Thursday, weeks before the country plans to send a man-rated
space station module into orbit.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1108/18longmarch/


DNEPR ROCKET BOOSTS SEVEN SATELLITES INTO EARTH ORBIT
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Seven small satellites to serve organizations on four continents rocketed
out of a missile silo in Russia and roared into orbit Wednesday on top of
a Dnepr launcher.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1108/17dnepr/


18-YEAR-OLD GPS SATELLITE RETURNS TO NAVIGATION DUTY
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Operators of the Global Positioning System have brought a decommissioned
satellite back to life to replace an ailing craft in the precision
navigation network, the Air Force said.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1108/17gps/

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