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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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