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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 654 draft                                   2012 Jan 30 Somerville MA USA
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Space Station
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Expedition 30 continues with Soyuz TMA-22 docked at Poisk and Soyuz
TMA-03M docked to the Rassvet module.


Iranian satellite
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Iran reports that it has launched the Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into
low orbit on Feb 3. It
carries a panchromatic imager, possibly developed by the Iranian Univ. of Sci. and
Technology (IUST, or in Persian, Daneshgah Elm-o Sanat Iran), Tehran.
Another report says that the satellite was built by Tehran's 
Sharif University of Technology (Daneshgah-e Sanati-ye Sharif).

The satellite's name means something like "Promise (Herald, Gospel, Good News, Harbinger) 
of Science and  Technology".

Orbital data from US tracking shows Navid and the Safir second stage
rocket in a 275 x 374 km x 56.0 deg orbit, and analysis indicates
a launch at around 0004 UTC on Feb 3.


Suborbital launches
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Armadillo Aerospace launched its LOX/ethanol STIG-A rocket from New Mexico's
Spaceport America on Jan 28, reaching the edge of space at 82 km.


Table of Recent (orbital) Launches 
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Date UT       Name            Launch Vehicle  Site            Mission    INTL.  
                                                                          DES.
Jan  9 0317   ZY-3        )     Chang Zheng 4B     Taiyuan           Imaging   01A
              Vesselsat 2 )                                          Comms     01B
Jan 13 0056   FY-2(07)          Chang Zheng 3A     Xichang           Weather   02A
Jan 20 0038   WGS 4             Delta 4M+(5,4)     Canaveral SLC37B  Comms     03A
Jan 24 2318   Chibis-M          -                  PM-13M, LEO       Science   62C
Jan 25 2306   Progress M-14M    Soyuz-U            Baykonur LC1      Cargo     04A
Feb  3 0004?  Navid             Safir              Semnan            Imaging   05A

Table of Recent (suborbital) Launches
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Date UT     Payload/Flt Name  Launch Vehicle  Site                   Mission    Apogee/km


Jan 11 1325   NASA 12.074GT    Terrier Malemute   Wallops             Test         500?
Jan 12 1451   S-520-26         S-520              Uchinoura           Atm Sci      298
Jan 28 1815   STIG-A-III       STIG-A             Spaceport America   Test          82

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