On March 23, 2014 at 22:54 UTC (March 24, at 02:54 Moscow time) the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The rocket equipped with the “Fregat” booster orbited “Glonass-M” navigation satellite.

 

On March 22, 2014 at 22:04 UTC the “Arian-5ECA” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 telecommunications satellites: the Astra-5B and Amazonas-4A.
 

On March 15, 2014 at 23:08 UTC the “Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the “Briz-M” booster orbited the “Express-AT1” and “Express-AT2” telecommunications satellite.

 

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 38 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as American astronaut Michael Hopkins.

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On March 11, 2014 at 00:02 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-10M” spacecraft undocked from the Russian "Poisk” (MIM 2) module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 38 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as American astronaut Michael Hopkins.

On March 03, 2014 American astronaut William Pogue, veteran of the final Skylab mission, passed away. He was 84.  

On February 28 several Nanosatellites were launched from the International Space station. The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.

The following Nanosatellites were launched from the ISS:

Flock-1.27 and Flock-1.28  – at 04:20 UTC;

On February 27, 2014at 18:37 UTC the H-2A (202) F-23 rocket-carrier was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The rocket orbited the GPM-C (Global Precipitation Mission-Core) meteorological satellite. The 3850-kg satellite will be used to measure global rain and snowfall, filling coverage gaps and anchoring an international orbital network to supply scientists and forecasters a radar-like snapshot of global precipitation every three hours.

The same rocket also orbited the following Japanese microsatellites: ShindaiSat (Ginrei) – 35 kg; STARS-2 (Space Tethe ... Read more »

On February 25, 26 and 27, 2014 several Nanosatellites were launched from the International Space station. The Nanosatellites delivered to the ISS by the "Cygnus” unmanned spacecraft were launched from the Japanese "Kibo” module of the ISS

The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.

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On February 21, 2014 at 01:59 UTC the "Delta-4M” rocket-carrier was launched from Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the GPS 2F-5 ‘Canopus’ navigation satellite.