On November 5, 1990, United States President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Launch Services Purchase Act.
In December 2010 Rocket Lab was awarded a US contract from the Operationally Responsive Space Office (ORS) to study low cost a space launcher to place nano-satellites into orbit.
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GOSAT was launched along with seven other piggyback probes using the H-IIA, Japan's primary large-scale expendable launch system, at 3:54 am on January 23, 2009 UTC on Tanegashima, a small island in southern Japan, after a two-day delay due to unfavourable weather.
The Zenit-2M, Zenit-2SB or Zenit-2SLB is an Ukrainian expendable carrier rocket derived from the Zenit-3SL.