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On August 24, 2011, 325 seconds into the flight, a flight violation triggered an emergency shutdown of the upper stage of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle. Progress M-12M and the upper stage crashed in the Altai region, a remote region near the border with China.
On August 22, 2011, a Soyuz-U launch vehicle rolled out with Progress M-12M at Baikonur. Progress was packed with 2670 kg of cargo consisting of scientific equipment, fuel, food, and water.
On August 18, 2011, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle lifted off with Express-AM4 satellite from Baikonur. The upper stage failed to insert the satellite into the proper orbit. Express-AM4 was to provide telecommunications and broadcast services to Russia and neighboring states.
STEREO spacecraft have recorded space weather events from their formation in the solar corona to their impact with the Earth. These observations revealed how the structures generated in the solar corona evolve during their 96 million mile journey to Earth.
The Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle rolled out at Baikonur with the telecommunications satellite Express-AM4. Proton-M lifted off as planned, on August 18, 2011, but the satellite was lost for a while after the separation from the upper stage. Instead of being inserted on a geostationary transfer orbit with a 20 degree inclination, Express-AM4 ended up in a highly elliptical orbit with an inclination of 51 degrees. Most likely, the Breeze-M upper stage dropped off the satellite in the wrong orbit.
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