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Upcoming Missions This Year
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The first scheduled launch of the year to take place from Japan's Tanegashima Island will be a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket with the IGS Optical 7 optical reconnaissance satellite. |
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The Russian Defense Ministry will launch another Meridian-M satellite from Russia's Plesetsk cosmodrome in January 2020. Meridian-M is a second generation military communications satellite and has a planned operational life of about seven years. |
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Missions No Earlier Than 2020
| NET2020 | Chang’e 5 | |||||||
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Chang'e 5 is a Chinese robotic mission to collect at least 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of lunar soil and rock samples from Earth's moon and return them to Earth. This would be the first lunar sample return mission attempted by any nation since 1976. |
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