On February 19, 2014 American astronaut Dale Gardner, veteran of 2 Space Shuttle flights, passed away. He was 65. He died from a sudden brain aneurysm. Gardner made history becoming the last of six astronauts to use the manned maneuvering unit (MMU) jetpack as he worked to return two malfunctioning satellites to Earth.

On February 19, 2014 at17:20 UTC the "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and burned up over the South Pacific Ocean.

On February 18, 2014 the US "Cygnus” (CRS Orb-1 mission) unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which had been attached to the space station since January 12, was released by astronauts aboard the station using the orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 11:41 UTC. It was the second flight of "Cygnus” to the ISS. CRS Orb-1 is the first of eight contracted flights by Orbital Sciences under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program.

On February 14 and 15, 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.

On February 14, 2014 at 21:09 UTC the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Briz-M” booster orbited the Turkish "Turksat-4A” telecommunications satellite. The satellite was made by Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) . The satellite is belonged to Turksat Satellite Communication, Cable TV and Operation A.S.

On February 11, 12 and 13, 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.

On February 11, 2014 at 15:06 UTC the "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft’s engines were started for deorbiting. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 15:54 UTC.

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On February 07, 2014 billions of people all over the world were able to witness an exciting show - the XXII Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

The Sretensky Monastery men's choir sang the Russian National Anthem, while 240 volunteers stood in formation wearing glowing suits of white, red, and blue to represent the Russian flag. The Russian state fla ... Read more »

On December 04, 2013 Russian Post issued the postal stationery devoted to the Space Olympic torch. Total edition are 1 000 000 envelops. The cover says: the Olympic torch is in outer space – for the first time in the history of the Olympic movement. On November 09, 2013 two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy took an Olympi ... Read more »

On February 06, 2014 at 21:30 UTC the Ariane-5ECA (VA-217) rocket- carrier was launched from Kourou space center in French Guiana. The rocket orbited ABS-2 and ATHENA FIDUS telecommunications satellites.

The ABS 2 spacecraft for Hong Kong-based Asia Broadcast Satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., USA. The satellite will beam direct-to-home television, multimedia and data transmission services across the Eastern Hemisphere, reaching a geographic swath from Europe and Africa, across the Middle East, Russia and India, to Southeast Asia and China.