The re-entry of an eight-metric-ton Zenit rocket stage was observed from the Peru/Brazil border in the afternoon skies of January 27, 2018, one month after the rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to lift a communications satellite into orbit for Angola.
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The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.
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Successfully placed into orbit by a Zenit-3F rocket, Angola’s first communications satellite appears to have hit major trouble shortly after separation from its launch vehicle Wednesday morning following a nine-hour climb into a drift orbit over the equator.
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A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket lifted off from Site 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome at 19:00:03 UTC on December 26, 2017, carrying into orbit the AngoSat 1 communications satellite for the Angolan Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology.
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A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket lifted off from Site 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome at 19:00:03 UTC on December 26, 2017, carrying into orbit the AngoSat 1 communications satellite for the Angolan Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology
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The thunder of a Zenit rocket returned to Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday night for the first time in two years as the Russian-Ukrainian booster made its long-awaited return to lift Angola’s first communications satellite into Geostationary Orbit.
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A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit booster was moved to its Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Pad on Sunday as the first of its kind to take flight in over two years, starting what is hoped to be Zenit’s resurrection
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Rocket debris crash landed in Vietnam last weekend when the spent second stage of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket re-entered over south-east Asia.
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The year 2015 saw 87 orbital launch attempts from spaceports across the globe – 84 missions reached orbit in a year that saw 82 successful orbital launches. Here are photos of all of 2015’s space launches.
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The year 2015 saw a total of 87 known orbital launch attempts operated by seven nations from space ports in eight countries.
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Friday’s Launch of a Zenit 3SLBF Rocket carrying the Elektro-L No. 2 satellite was declared a success by the Russian Space Agency, confirming that the weather satellite reached its intended Geostationary Drift Orbit.
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A Zenit 3SLBF rocket lifts off from Site 45/1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 11, 2015 to embark on a nine-hour ascent mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 weather satellite to orbit.
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A Zenit 3SLBF rocket lifts off from Site 45/1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 11, 2015 to embark on a nine-hour ascent mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 weather satellite to orbit.
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A Zenit 3 rocket blasted off on Friday, lighting up the evening skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome for its 83rd and possibly last flight, embarking on a long mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 satellite to Geostationary Drift Orbit.
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A Zenit rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Site 45/1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the launch of the Elektro-L No. 2 weather satellite on Friday.
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