Cameras on the International Space Station offer a view of Hurricane Rina. On October 25, 2011, the hurricane was located 300 miles east-southeast of Chetumal, Mexico.
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Installation of the payload consisting of the first two Galileo satellites on the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle using the vertical assembly mobile tower. Soyuz-ST lifted off on October 21, 2011.
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A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted off for the first time from Kourou in French Guiana on October 21, 2011. Soyuz carried the first two Galileo satellites. Soyuz launch vehicles that are flown from Kourou use an updated digital flight control system, a more powerful third stage, and have a larger payload fairing.
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On October 1, 2011, a comet plunged into the Sun. The STEREO coronagraphs captured the event. Do not drive and text message in the same time!
On October 19, 2011, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off with the telecommunications satellite ViaSat-1 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This was the 369th flight of a Proton-M.
Rollout of a Proton-M launch vehicle with the telecommunications satellite ViaSat-1.
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