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 Russian Soyuz TMA-07M undocked from ISS.
On May 13, 2013 at 23:08 UTC (on May 14 at 03:08 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-07M” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 35 – Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield and American astronaut Thomas Marshburn.
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Emergency spacewalk performed by 2 astronauts.
On May 11, 2013 American astronauts Tomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy conducted an emergency spacewalk to inspect and replace a device believed to be the source of an ammonia leak in the orbiting laboratory's power system. The space walkers successfully installed a new pump controller box, which contains the mechanical systems that drive the cooling functions, after removing the old one suspected of leaking flakes of frozen ammonia coolant two days earlier.
The spacewalk, the third for both Cassidy and Marshburn, who conducted two spacewalks together in July 2009, began at 12:44 UTC. It lasted five and a half hours, an hour less than expected.
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3 satellites launched from Kuru.
On May 7, 2013 at 02:06 UTC the "Vega” (VV02) rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 3 satellites. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA's "Proba-V” and Vietnamese "VNREDSat 1A”, and Estonia's first satellite ESTCube 1, were released into different orbits.
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Date: 14.05.2013
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China launched communications satellite.
On May 01, 2013 at 16:06 UTC (on May 02 at 00:06 Beijing time) the "Long March-3B” rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket orbited the "Zhongxing-11" communications satellite. "Zhongxing-11" will be mainly used in providing commercial communications services for users in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Date: 04.05.2013
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Russian Progress docked to Space Station despite a malfunction.
On April 26, 2013 at 12:26 UTC the Russian "Progress M-19M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station despite its navigation aerial malfunction. The docking was conducted in an automatic mode where the failed antenna was not necessary. The spacecraft was docked to the "Zvezda” module. The spacecraft carried 2366 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew from Russia, the United States and Canada.
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Russia launched new Glonass-M satellite.
On April 26, 2013 at 05:23 UTC the "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Russian northern Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited Glonass-M navigation satellite.
GLONASS is Russia’s answer to the US Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use.
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Date: 30.04.2013
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China launched earth observation satellite.
On April 26, 2013 at 04:13 UTC the "Long March-2D” rocket-carrier was launched from northwest China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The rocked orbited the Chinese "Gaofen 1" high-definition earth observation satellite,
The rocket also carried three small satellites made by Ecuador (NEE 01 Pegasus), Argentina (CubeBug-1 'Capitán Beto') and Turkey (Turksat-3USAT) as well as two satellite splitters from the Netherlands.
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Date: 29.04.2013
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Progress M-17M mission completed.
On April 21, 2013 at 14:07 UTC the "Progress M-17M” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 15:02 UTC.
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The US private space rocket launched for test mission.
On April 21, 2013 at 21:00 UTC the "Antares” rocket was launched from launch pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coastline, USA. The first launch of the Antares rocket is a major step in a joint venture between Orbital Sciences Corp. and NASA to develop two commercial space transportation systems to resupply the International Space station, replacing much of the cargo-carrying capacity lost when the space shuttle retired in 2011.
The rocket orbited a 3800 kg block of aluminum designed to mimic the mass characteristics of the Cygnus spacecraft, which will take the dummy payload's place on the next Antares launch.
The rocket also orbited 4 satellites of CubeSat standart: Alexander, Graham, Bell and Dove 1.
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