December 2012 Launch Calendar


Launch Dates and Times are subject to change!
Last Update: December 27,  2012
  
YEAR DATE TIME LAUNCH SITE LAUNCH VEHICLE PAYLOAD NOTES
      Guiana Space     Optical
2012 Dec 1 02:02:50 UTC Center, Kourou Soyuz 2-1A Pleiades 1B Imaging
      French Guiana     Satellite 
    20:43:55 UTC Odyssey Platform     Commercial
2012 Dec 3 - Sea Launch, Zenit 3SL Eutelsat 70B Communications
    21:38 UTC Pacific Ocean     Satellite 
      Baikonur     Briz-M
2012 Dec 8 13:13:43 UTC Cosmodrome Proton-M/Biz-M Yamal-402 Upper Stage
      Kazakhstan     Failure
      SLC-41     Third Flight of the
2012 Dec 11 18:03:00 UTC Cape Canaveral Atlas V 501 X-37B OTV-3 X-37B Orbital
      Air Force Station     Test Vehicle
      Sohae     Daily Launch
2012 dec 12 00:49:46 UTC Launch Center Unha-3 Kwangmyongsong 3 Window
      North Korea      
      Jiquan Satellite     Turkish
2012 Dec 18 16:12:52 UTC Launch Center Long March 2D Göktürk-2 Imaging
      China     Satellite
      Baikonur     ISS Expedition
2012 Dec 19 12:12:35 UTC Cosmodrome Soyuz FG Soyuz TMA-07M 34/35 Crew
      Kazakhstan     Manned Launch
      Guiana Space     Commercial
2012 Dec 19 21:49:00 UTC Center, Kourou Ariane 5 ECA Skynet-5D Communications
      French Guiana   MexSat-3 Satellites
      Baikonur     Commercial
2013 DELAY   Cosmodrome Proton-M/Biz-M Satmex 8 Communications
      Kazakhstan     Satellite
      Naro Space     Third Flight of the
2013 DELAY   Center KSLV-1 STSAT-2C Naro-1/KSLV-1
      South Korea     Launch Vehicle
      MARS      
2013 DELAY   Launch Pad 0A Antares Cygnus Mass + CubeSats
      Virginia, USA   Simulator  
      Plesetsk      
2013 DELAY   Cosmodrome Soyuz 2-1B 3 Glonass K-1 Navigation Sats
      Russia      
      Plesetsk     Three
2013 DELAY Cosmodrome Rokot/Briz-KM 3 Rodnik-S Communication
      Russia     Payloads
      Naro Space     Third Flight of the
2013 DELAY   Center KSLV-1 STSAT-2C Naro-1/KSLV-1
      South Korea     Launch Vehicle
   



December 2012 - Featured Missions

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Image: NASA
Expedition 34
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Image: Boeing Phantom Works

OTV-3 Mission Updates
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Photo: ESA/Arianespace
Pleiades 1B Launch Updates
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Photo: Sea Launch

Eutelsat 70B Launch Updates
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Image: Arianespace

VA211 Mission Updates
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Image: NASA/Roscosmos

Soyuz TMA-07M Mission Updates