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 Russia launched British Satellite.
On December 08, 2013 at 12:11 UTC the "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Briz-M” booster orbited the "Inmarsat 5F-1” British telecommunications satellite. The satellite, built by Boeing Satellite Systems, provides a wide range of voice and data services through an established global network of distributors and service providers. Its expected service life is 15 years in geostationary orbit.
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Date: 20.12.2013
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USA launched a classified spy satellite.
On December 06, 2013 at 07:14 UTC the "Atlas-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the spaceport on California's Central Coast, USA. The rocket orbited a US classified spy satellite. The satellite is owned by the National Reconnaissance Office, but government officials do not disclose the identities of the NRO's spacecraft, only saying the payload will serve national security purposes. But independent satellite-watchers believe the spacecraft will join the NRO's fleet of spacecraft with radars to penetrate cloaks of clouds and darkness and reveal what adversaries are doing regardless of weather or time of day. The mission is officially named as NROL-39.
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Date: 13.12.2013
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SpaceX launched first commercial payload.
On December 03, 2013 at 22:41 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. The rocket orbited SES-8 telecommunications satellite. Built by Orbital Sciences Corp., the SES 8 satellite will broadcast direct-to-home television to customers across India, Vietnam, Thailand and neighboring countries.
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Date: 13.12.2013
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China launched its 1st moon rover.
On December 01, 2013 at 17:30 UTC the "Long March – 3B” ("Changzheng-3B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Launch Center in southern China's Sichuan province. The rocket orbited the "Chang'e-3” lunar probe with its first moon rover "Yutu" (Jade Rabbit) aboard.
It is the first time for China to send a spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, where it will conduct surveys on the moon.
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Date: 03.12.2013
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Russian “Progress M-21M” spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On November 29, 2013 at 22:30 UTC (on November 30 at 02:30 Moscow time) the Russian "Progress M-21M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian "Zvezda” (Star) module. The spacecraft carried about 2400 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.
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Russia launched “Progress M-21M” spacecraft to Space Station.
On November 25, 2013 at 20:53 UTC (on November 26 at 00:53 Moscow time) the "Progress M-21M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier.
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China launched experimental satellite.
On November 25, 2013 at 02:12 UTC the the "Long March – 2D” ("Changzheng-2D”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The rocket orbited the "Shiyan-5” satellite. The satellite will conduct technological experiments and environmental surveys.
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Date: 03.12.2013
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Russia launched 3 European scientific satellites.
On November 22, 2013 at 12:02 UTC the "Rokot” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The rocket equipped with the "Briz-KM” booster orbited three European Swarm A,B,C scientific satellites. The satellites designed to explore the Earth's magnetic field.
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Date: 02.12.2013
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Russian rocket sent record 32 satellites into space.
On November 21, 2013 at 07:10 UTC a Soviet-era "Dnepr” ballistic missile blasted off from southern Russia. The "Dnepr” rocket launched from an underground silo at a space base near Yasny, Russia, a small community in the Orenburg region in the southern part of the country.
The rocket orbited 32 satellites for students, corporations and government agencies from 18 countries on five continents. The main payload was DubaiSat-2 and STSAT-3.
DubaiSat 2, an Earth observation satellite about the size of a compact car jointly developed by Satrec Initiative of South Korea and the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology, or EIAST, an entity of the Dubai government.
South Korea's STSAT 3 (Science and Technology Satellite-3) multipurpose satellite was launched with instruments to observe the Milky Way galaxy in infrared and mon
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Date: 28.11.2013
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Microsatellite launched from the Space station.
On November 20, 2013 at 07:58 UTC the TechEdSat 3 (Technical and Educational Satellite 3) satellite was launched from the board of the International Space Station. It was released from the Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer aboard the station.
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