On August 6, 2012, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with Express-MD2 and Telcom-3. The Breeze-M upper stage failed to deliver the payload to the designated orbits.
Credit: Roscosmos
Archive for August, 2012
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Images from the MSL control room at JPL along with visualization of the spacecraft\’s entry, descent and landing. The MSL Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) also captured the descent to the martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The landing sites of all NASA spacecraft that landed on Mars, and also the target location where MSL Curiosity will touch down.
Credit: NASA
On August 2, 2012, an Ariane 5 launch vehicle lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, with two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 20 and Hylas-2. This was the 50th successful Ariane flight in a row.
Credit: Arianespace
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Progress M-16M (Western designation Progress 47) lifted off from Baikonur on August 1, 2012. Six hours later, Progress automatically docked to the International Space Station. The new accelerated rendezvous could be also applied to manned Soyuz vehicles in the future.
Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
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