Russia Plans Five New Space Launches

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Moscow (UPI) Nov 1, 2004
Five launches will be made from Russian spaceports within the next three months, the Interfax news agency said Monday.

The news agency was citing a new report from Russia's Federal Space Agency.

Bearing in mind the delayed launch of a Soyuz-2 rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport, the total number of rocket launches will stand at five over the next three months, the report said. A new date for the Soyuz-2 launch will be set after all the necessary characteristics are confirmed.

In November, the Baikonur spaceport will start preparing a Soyuz rocket and a Progress-M cargo spaceship. Progress-M will be launched Dec. 23 under the International Space Station program, Interfax said.

A Proton rocket and GLONASS satellites will be launched on Dec. 25. Federal Space Agency units will take a month to prepare the launch in Baikonur, the news agency said

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Counting Down To Swift Launch

London (SPX) Oct 29, 2004
On November 8th NASA's Swift mission, which will study the explosive phenomena of gamma ray bursts, will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. UK scientists, from the University of Leicester and University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, have designed and built core elements of two of the three Swift telescopes.

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