On January 10, 2015 at 09:47 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from the Cape Canaveral US Air Force Station in Florida. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-5 flight) unmanned spacecraft on a firth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. The Dragon spacecraft is carrying about 2,317 kilograms of supplies for the space station crew and for experiments being conducted aboard the ISS. It is the 7th flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 6th flight of a “Dragon” to the ISS.

On January 01, 2015, Boris Vladimirovich MORUKOV, pilot-cosmonaut of Russia, passed away at the age of 64.

Morukov, a doctor and a former cosmonaut, was project director of the unprecedented Mars-500 simulation, in which an international team of six men spent 520 days in isolation to simulate a flight to Mars.

92 rocket-carries were launched in 2014. 90 launches were successful. There were 2 fail launches in 2014.

Russia performed 32 launches. One of them was a fail launch.

USA performed 23 launches. One of them was a fail launch.

China performed 16 launches.

Arianespace performed 11 launches.

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On November 13, 2014 Russian Post issued a postage stamp devoted to the 100^th birthday Anniversary of Georgy Nikolayevich BABAKIN, a Soviet engineer working in the space program. He was Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1965 until his death. Babakin's "NPO Lavochkin" brought improved engineering, testing and systems management, generating a series of successes — the first soft landing on the Moon by the “Luna-9”, the first probe of the Venusian atmosphere by “Venera-4”. The stamp depicts a portrait showing Georgy Babakin and the “Luna-17” robotic spacecraft.

The size of stamp is 42х30 millimeters.

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On December 31, 2014 at 01:02 UTC, the Chang Zheng-3A (Long March-3A) rocket-carrier was launched from Xichang Cosmodrome, Sichuan province, southwestern China. The rocket orbited the “Fengyun-2-08” weather satellite. The satellite will provide warnings of weather fronts and tropical cyclones across Asia.

On December 27, 2014 at 21:37 UTC (on December 28 at 00:37 Moscow time) the Russian "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Briz-M” booster orbited the “Astra-2G” broadcast satellite. The “Astra-2G” is a 6.6-ton spacecraft designed to beam television broadcasts and broadband services across the United Kingdom and Ireland, continental Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The spacecraft is based on the Eurostar E3000 satellite platform manufactured by Airbus Defense and Space. This flight marked the 401st launch of a Proton rocket since it debuted in 1965.

On December 27, 2014 at 03:22 UTC the “Long March – 4B” (“Changzheng-4B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Yaogan-26” Earth observation satellite. Chinese media refer to the “Yaogan-26” satellite as a remote sensing satellite that will be used for scientific experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring. Chinese state media did not announce the launch in advance, keeping with customary practice for rocket launches with Chinese military satellites. Some observers believe that the “Yaogan-26” is a military reconnaissance satellite.

On December 26, 2014 at 18:55 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket orbited the “Resurs-P2” Earth observation satellite.

Designed for a five-year mission, the “Resurs-P2” satellite will collect imagery of Earth’s surface for distribution to Russian government agencies responsible for agriculture, the environment, emergency situations, fisheries, meteorology and cartography. This new Russian satellite is equipped with high-resolution cameras to survey the globe and a plasma physics experiment to seek out signs of exotic antimatter and dark matter in the cosmos.

On December 25, 2014 at 03:01 UTC the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The launch was performed by Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. The rocket orbited the “Lotos-S” reconnaissance satellite. Although Russian authorities identified the payload as a communications satellite, but independent observers believe it is the second platform in a new series of spacecraft designed to eavesdrop on radio transmissions.

On December 23, 2014 at 05:57 UTC the Russian “Angara-A5” new rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The launch was performed by Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. The rocket equipped with the “Breeze-M” upper stage put a dummy satellite into geostationary orbit 22,300 miles over the equator. Weighing 773 metric tons (852 tons) when filled with kerosene, liquid oxygen and hypergolic propellants, the Angara 5 is the biggest Russian launcher to debut since the Energia rocket for the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle flew in the late 1980s.