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Schedule of Spacecraft Launches for June 2003
According to the Russian Aerospace Agency, the following launches of spacecraft (SC) are scheduled for June 2003 under the federal programs of Russia, international cooperation programs and commercial programs:

Date		Cosmodrome		Craft/object to be launched		Carrier rocket		Goal		Notes
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June 2, 2003 21:45:26 Moscow time		Baikonur		Mars Express SC		Soyuz with a Fregat upper stage		Carrying out scientific research		Placing the SC on a Mars-bound trajectory
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June 7, 2003		Baikonur		AMC 9 (ÆÅ-12) telecommunications satellite		Proton with a Briz-M upper stage		Commercial launch		Previously scheduled for May 20 but had to be canceled for technical reasons
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June 8, 2003 14:34:17 Moscow time		Baikonur		Progress M1-259 cargo spacecraft		Soyuz		Ensuring the operation of the ISS; delivering to it fuel components, expendable equipment, equipment for scientific experiments and containers with food and other cargo		Orbit features: period of reversal - 88,59 minutes inclination - 51,66 degrees min.altitude - 193 km max.altitude - 245 km
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June 30, 2003		Plesetsk		Bridge and Mimoza SC, and Monitor-E space complex model		Rokot		Carrying out space research		6 foreign nanosatellites of varying purpose are planned to be orbited as an associated payload