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.