In April 2019 the “Marka” joint-stock company of Russian Ministry of Communications issued the postal stationery (envelope) devoted to the Cosmonautic Day. Total edition is 2 000 000 envelops. The size of the envelope is 110 mm х 220 mm.

Three different official post marks were used for cancelling philatelic material at Moscow’s 101000 post office on 12 April 2019, including the new one. All of 3 special official post marks are with a date setting mechanism. The new one is the pentagonal “To the Conquerors of space” special official post mark. Its ... Read more »

On April 20, 2019 at 14:41 UTC the "Chang Zheng-3B/G2” (Long March-3B/G2) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket orbited the “Beidou-44” navigation satellites.