Stephen Clark is the Editor of Spaceflight Now, a web-based publication dedicated to covering rocket launches, human spaceflight and exploration. He joined the Spaceflight Now team in 2009 and previously wrote as a senior reporter with the Daily Texan. You can follow Stephen's latest project at SpaceflightNow.com and on Twitter.
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Russia launched three more Glonass navigation satellites into space Monday atop a Proton rocket.

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A European satellite built to monitor polar ice will be grounded for up to a week because of an issue with the steering system on its Dnepr launcher.

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A Chinese remote sensing mission, possibly a military reconnaissance satellite, lifted off from a desert pad atop a Long March rocket Wednesday.

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A new spacecraft dedicated to studying the Earth's oceans was shot into orbit aboard an Indian rocket early Wednesday.

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A commercial space pioneer and a former astronaut are answering claims by an independent advisory panel that private companies do not meet NASA human-rating standards.

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A new high-definition television broadcasting satellite was deployed by a Proton rocket early Tuesday.

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A Proton rocket has successfully launched three new satellites for Russia's space navigation network.

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The long-delayed Angara rocket family has finished a series of important tests.

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Space officials in Europe and Japan are considering plans to build and launch additional indigenous cargo ships to the International Space Station if the program is extended beyond 2015.

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A new satellite to broadcast video and data services to Russia and the Middle East was successfully released in geosynchronous transfer orbit Monday.

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In an unpublicized launch lacking fanfare, an H-2A rocket successfully boosted Japan's most advanced spy satellite to orbit on Saturday from the country's island space center.

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Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth.

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A modified Russian ballistic missile successfully launched a $464 million European science satellite Monday.

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A Chinese Long March rocket launched an Indonesian communications satellite into the wrong orbit Monday.

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South Korea successfully launched a rocket into space Tuesday to orbit a satellite.

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South Korea aborted the attempted launch if its first orbital rocket just eigth minutes before liftoff on Wednesday.

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A Proton rocket sent an Asian communications satellite on the way to orbit Tuesday.

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A Kosmos 3M rocket boosted a secret Russian military satellite and a civilian search and rescue spacecraft into orbit early Tuesday.

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A Russian Proton rocket launched the Sirius FM5 XM radio satellite into space on Thursday.

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A Land Launch Zenit 3SLB rocket launched the Malaysian satellite MEASAT 3A on Sunday.

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A military satellite prototype is being readied for launch from Virginia on Tuesday.
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