On March 27, 2014 Secretary of the FIP Section for Astrophilately Jaromir Matejka and Chairman of the Section Igor Rodin had a meeting in Wien. They discussed a number of questions for organization the Section’s meeting in the frames of Philakorea 2014 exhibition. Some other questions for the development of Astrophilately were also discussed.
 

On March 25, 2014 at 21:17 UTC (on March 26 at 01:17 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-12M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov (center); flight-engineer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (right); American astronaut Steven Swanson (left).

Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center. The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on March 28. Skvortsov, Art ... Read more »

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.