On May 5, 2020 at 10:00 UTC the Chang Zheng-5B (Long March-5B) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the next-generation Chinese crew capsule (新一代载人试验飞船) without cosmonauts on a demonstration flight.
On April 25, 2020 at 05:12 UTC the Russian “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Zvezda” module. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew.
On April 25, 2020 at 01:51 UTC the “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. The Soyuz rocket was decorated to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army and the Soviet people over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
On April 22, 2020 at 19:30 UTC the " Falcon-9” rocket-carrier was launched Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited 60 more satellites for the “Starlink” project.
On April 22, 2020 at 03:59 UTC the “Qased” (also “Ghased”, Persian: قاصد, “messenger”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Shahroud missile range in the northeastern part of the country. The launch site is situated in Dasht-e Kavir Desert (also known as Kavir-e Namak and the Great Salt Desert) is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau. The rocket orbited the Iranian “Noor” (meaning 'light' in Persian) military satellite. This mission was the first successful satellite launch by Iran since February 2015, but it was the first by the previously-unknown “Qased” rocket-carrier.
On April 17, 2020 at 05:16 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-15” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 62 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, American astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan. Oleg Skripochka and Jessica Meir spent in space 205 days; Andrew Morgan – 272 days. Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner a
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On April 17, 2020 at 01:53 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-15” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 62 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, American astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan.
