On October 14, 2010, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Sirius XM-5 satellite. The satellite will be tested in a temporary location before moving to its permanent location in a geostationary orbit.
On October 14, 2010, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Sirius XM-5 satellite. The satellite will be tested in a temporary location before moving to its permanent location in a geostationary orbit.
Soyuz TMA-01M docked to the Poisk module on the Zvezda Service Module on the Russian segment of the International Space Station on October 10, 2010.
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The Soyuz TMA-01 spacecraft carrying three Expedition 25 crew members lifted off on October 8, 2010, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 25 Commander Alexander Kaleri, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly, and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka will join Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin, who have been in orbit since June.
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The launch vehicle Soyuz-FG and the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-01M are leaving the assembly and test facility. The assembled vehicle is moved to the launch facility \’Gagarin\’s Start\’ at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is being assembled and mated with the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. Soyuz TMA-01M will carry a crew consisting of cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka, and astronaut Scott Kelly to the International Space Station.
On October 1, 2010, the Chang\’e-2 spacecraft was launched aboard a Long March 3C launch vehicle from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, Sichuan. The Chinese lunar probe directly entered the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.