On November 08, 2015 at 07:06 UTC the “Long March – 4B” (“Changzheng-4B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Yaogan Weixing-28” remote sensing satellite. Analysts believe that this class of satellites is used for military purposes.

On November 6, 2015 American astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren performed the spacewalk for routing ammonia coolant back to the prime radiator used by one of the lab’s solar arrays and bypassing a secondary radiator that was activated three years ago to help pinpoint a coolant leak. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 48 minutes.

On November 4, 2015 at 03:45 UTC the “Super Strypi” rocket blasted off from a rail launch platform at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai Island, Hawaii, United States. The first flight of an experimental U.S. military rocket designed for low-cost, quick-reaction satellite launches ended in failure, destroying 13 small spacecraft clustered on the mission for NASA researchers and university students. Government and industry officials hope the “Super Strypi” — also known as the Low Earth Orbiting Nanosatellite Integrated Defense Autonomous System, or LEONIDAS — has applications in the commercial industry as a dedicated light-class satellite launcher.