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 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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China launched for the second time in 24 hours.
On November 21, 2014 at 06:37 UTC the “Kuaizhou” (‘Quick-vessel’ in English) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China.
The rocket orbited the “Kuaizhou-2” natural disaster monitoring satellite. This was the second launch in 24 hours for the Chinese, following the Long March 2D launch of the Yaogan Weixing-24 “remote sensing” satellite, which itself came just six days after China orbited the Yaogan-23 spacecraft.
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China launched military satellite.
On November 20, 2014, 2014 at 07:12 UTC the “Long March – 2D” (“Changzheng-2D”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the “Yaogan-24” remote sensing satellite. The satellite will be used for scientific experiments, natural resource surveying, estimating crop yields and disaster relief. Yaogan 24 could carry a sharp-eyed optical camera to supply global reconnaissance imagery to Chinese military authorities, according to Western analysts. This liftoff marked China’s second space launch in less than a week, following the delivery of another secretive Yaogan satellite to orbit Nov. 14. It was the 11th Chinese space launch of 2014.
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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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China launched remote sensing satellite.
On November 14, 2014 at 18:53 UTC the “Long March – 2C” (“Changzheng-2C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Yaogan-23” remote sensing satellite. The satellite will be used for scientific experiments, natural resource surveying, estimating crop yields and disaster relief. As was the case in the last launches of the Yaogan Weixing series, western analysts believe this class of satellites is used for military purposes.
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European “Philae” space probe makes first landing on a comet.
On November 12, 2014 the “Philae” lander of the European Space Agency’s “Rosetta” probe performed the first-ever landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The spacecraft landed successfully on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at approximately 15:30 UTC. Its touchdown report reached Earth some 30 minutes later. After completing its historic landing, the lander transmitted first signals to Earth from comet surface.
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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. |
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