 US Navy small satellite launched from ISS.
On November 28, 2014 at 17:00 UTC the “SpinSat” satellite was launched from the International Space Station. The satellite — named SpinSat and developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory — will test out new electrically-controlled micro-thrusters, help refine the military’s ability to track objects in space, and acquire data on the density of the tenuous upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. SpinSat’s deployment from the space station was the first time a satellite was released from a new mechanism designed to accommodate spacecraft weighing up to 100 kilograms. The space station already has a deployer for tiny CubeSat satellites, which weigh less than 10 pounds.
The debut of a new deployer known as the Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems (SSIKLOPS) allows the complex to serve as a launch platform for larger, more capable satellites.
The deployer is nicknamed Cyclops and measures about the size
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Russian Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft docked to the ISS.
On November 24, 2014 at 02:48 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-15M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Rassvet” (MIM-1) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime.
The Soyuz TMA-15M delivered three new members of Expedition 42 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti and American astronaut Terry Virts.
The hatches between "Soyuz TMA-15M” and the station were opened at 04:30 UTC.
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-15M manned spacecraft.
On November 23, 2014 at 21:01 UTC (on November 24 at 00:01 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-15M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center); flight-engineer, Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti (right); American astronaut Terry Virts (left).
Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on November 24. Shkaplerov, Christoforetti and Virts will join current ISS expediti
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Progress M-24M mission completed.
On November 19, 2014 at 23:00 UTC (on November 20 at 02:00 Moscow time) the “Progress M-24M” spacecraft were deorbiting. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 23:46 UTC.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft landed.
On November 10, 2014 at 03:58 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-13M” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of 85 kilometers north from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
photo by NASA
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 41 – Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, American astronaut Gregory Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. They spent in space 165 days, 07 hours, 01 minutes.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyaev and Elena Serova as well as American astro
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Russian Soyuz TMA-13M undocked from ISS.
On November 10, 2014 at 00:31 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-13M” spacecraft undocked from the Russian "Rassvet” (MIM-1) module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 41 – Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, American astronaut Gregory Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. |
Russian “Progress M-25M” spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On October 29, 2014 at 13:08 UTC the Russian “Progress M-25M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Pirs” (Pier) module. The spacecraft carried about 2400 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.
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Cygnus spacecraft blew up during the launch.
On October 28, 2014, at 22:22 UTC the “Cygnus” unmanned spacecraft blew up during the launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island off the U.S. east coast, Va., USA. The "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was supposed to deliver more than 2 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
The “Cygnus” (CRS Orb-3,also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 3 or Orbital 3), was supposed to be orbited by the Antares-130 rocket-carrier also built by Orbital Sciences Corp.
This flight, which would have been its fourth to the International Space Station and the fifth of an Antares launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff.
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Progress M-24M undocked from ISS.
On October 27, 2014 at 05:38 UTC the “Progress M-24M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian “Pirs” (Pier) module of the International Space Station. Since November 02 till November 19 the spacecraft will be used in the “Otrazhenie (Reflection)” scientific experiment. The spacecraft is to be deorbited on November 20, 2014.
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