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Japan is scheduled to launch a satellite observing the Earth on May 24, to use it to investigate the damage caused by natural disasters and changes affecting tropical rain forests.

On May 24, Japan successfully launched the advanced ground-observation satellite Daichi-2 into orbit.

South Korea's scientific satellite contacted the ground station on January 31, marking the full success of its first satellite launch mission, Yonhap quoted officials as saying.

South Korea on November 29 suspended its mission to launch its satellite just 17 minutes before the missile left the launch pad as planned, due to technical problems.

The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) on September 10 said it would error all Briz-M propulsion engines after one of these engines was thought to have caused a failure in the Proton

On February 24, 2012, the US Navy successfully launched the first MUOS-13G communications satellite into an Atlas 5 rocket (6 meters long) from the satellite launch station of Cape

Japan today (December 12) launched a new-generation reconnaissance satellite into orbit, amid growing concern of the country over North Korea's missile program and surveillance of

A Chinese space expert said yesterday Beijing will launch 20 missiles and 25 artificial satellites into space this year.

Russia successfully launched a military satellite yesterday. This spy satellite is responsible for taking photos of the earth, up to 7 years old.

Iran's Al-Alam Arabic TV channel reported that the country on June 15 successfully launched the Rassad-1 homemade satellite (Observation) to orbit 260km from Earth.