The letter from RPSL exhibition to the Space Station.

The space letter was delivered from Earth to the International Space Station by the Russian “Soyuz MS-13” spacecraft. First the letter with the handwritten message inside was sent by priority mail from Sweden (“Stockholmia-2019” international philatelic exhibition) to Russia. Then the letter was delivered to the ISS. The letter was addressed to Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin who had been working aboard the Space Station since 15 March 2019. Aboard the ISS, the letter was marked with the “ISS” octagonal board seal, the “Russian Post. ISS. Russian Segment” round board post mark and the &ldq ... Read more »

On February 10, 2020 at 04:03 UTC the "Atlas-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe also known as LWS-5 (Living With a Star mission-5). The satellite is to take images of the sun’s poles and in addition, getting the first ever data of the polar magnetic field.

On February 10, 2020 at 04:03 UTC the "Atlas-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe also known as LWS-5 (Living With a Star mission-5). The satellite is to take images of the sun’s poles and in addition, getting the first ever data of the polar magnetic field.

On February 9, 2020 at around 15:45 UTC, the Iranian “Simorgh” rocket-carrier (also known as “Safir-2A”) was launched from the Imam Khomeini Spaceport, located in Semnan Province, 50 km southeast of the city of Semnan in the north of Iran. The “Simorgh” (Persian: ماهواره‌بر سیمرغ‎, Phoenix) is an Iranian rocket-carrier. The rocket was to orbit the Iranian-made “Zafar-1” (Triumph) satellite. The rocket failed to reach the designated orbit. The satellite was lost.