On September 2, 2010, a Proton-M heavy launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome with three Glonass-M satellites. The satellites were placed into the designated orbits by the DM-2 upper stage.
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NASA and ATK successfully tested a five-segment solid rocket motor. The motor, dubbed DM-2, is the largest and the most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. It is designed to generate up to 3.6 million pounds of thrust at launch.
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Flight engineers Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson removed the spare pump module from an external stowage platform and installed it on the S1 Truss. The EVA was performed on August 16, 2010, and lasted for 7 hours and 20 minutes.
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Flight engineers Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson extracted the failed pump from the station truss and prepared the spare pump for future installation. The EVA was performed on August 11, 2010, and lasted for 7 hours and 26 minutes.
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Spacewalkers were Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. The astronauts are removing a failed cooling pump unit. During this EVA, they manage to disconnect the electrical and fluid connectors, but did not complete all the planned tasks. The EVA was performed on August 7, 2010, and lasted for 8 hours and 3 minutes.
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The Arianespace Flight 196 orbited the NILESAT 201 direct broadcast satellite and the RASCOM-QAF1R communications satellite. Both satellites are built by Thales Alenia Space. This was the third launch of an Ariane 5 launch vehicle in 2010. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on August 4, 2010, at 20:59 UT.
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