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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A Japanese demonstration satellite launched into space Saturday.

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A Proton rocket launched the Thor 5 satellite for Norway Monday.

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An Ariane 5 rocket launched a two satellites into orbit late Wednesday.

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Russian rocket resumes launches after earlier failure.

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A joint mission of China and Brazil shot into an orbit circling Earth's poles late Tuesday.

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It was a day of redemption for India's space program Sunday, when the nation's most powerful rocket returned to the skies.

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A German radar reconnaissance satellite vaulted into space from a Russian launch site Monday.

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Russia launched a military satellite aboard a Zenit rocket Friday in the booster's first flight since January.

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A German satellite carrying a cloud-piercing, night-vision radar reached space Thursday .

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Globalstar launched four new communications satellites Tuesday.

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A Dnepr rocket laden with 14 small international satellites flew out of an underground missile silo and soared into space Tuesday on its first mission since failure struck the launcher last year.

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China launched its second satellite in less than three days Friday when a Long March 3A rocket successfully delivered a navigation craft into orbit.

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China launched a satellite Wednesday to begin a three-year mission surveying the world's oceans to monitor sea color and temperature, according to state media reports.

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A Chinese navigation satellite was successfully hauled into orbit Friday to kick off a busy year in space that will include the launch of the country's first probe to study the Moon.

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Virginia's Wallops Island hosted its first space launch in seven years this morning when a Minotaur rocket blazed a trail into orbit with a U.S. Air Force demonstration satellite.

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The latest additions to Russia's indigenous satellite navigation system successfully arrived in orbit Monday after a nearly four-hour ride aboard a Proton rocket.

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Japan's largest satellite was launched by the nation's most powerful rocket Monday to begin a mission testing technologies to aid the burgeoning mobile communications industry.

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A heavy-lifting Ariane 5 rocket gave two communications satellites a smooth ride into space Friday in a launch originating from a European-run spaceport nestled in the South American jungle.
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