On August 20, 2020, the Japanese HTV "Kounotori-9” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere at 07:07 UTC. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the Pacific. It was the last spacecraft of the “HTV” series. Currently, a new supply spacecraft of the “HTV-X” series is being built in Japan. Its task, like its predecessor, will be to deliver cargo to the ISS.

On August 18, 2020, the Japanese "HTV Kounotori-9” unmanned supply spacecraft departed the International Space Station. First HTV-9 was disengaged with the space station's robotic arm from a docking port on the Harmony module at 13:51 UTC. At 17:36 UTC the spacecraft was released.

On August 18, 2020 at 14:31 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 58 more satellites for the “Starlink” project.

On August 15, 2020 at 22:04 UTC the “Ariane-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 communications satellites.

On August 7, 2020 at 05:12 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 57 more satellites for the “Starlink” project.

On August 6, 2020, at 04:01 UTC the “Long March –2D” (“Changzheng-2D”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the “Gaofen-9-04” Earth observation satellite and the Qinghua research satellite.

On August 2, 2020 at 18:48 UTC the US Crew Dragon (Demo-2) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, USA. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth two American astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken. They spent in space 63 days, 23 hours and 25 minutes. Three other ISS crew members - Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner as well as American astronaut Christopher Cassidy remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station. It was the first piloted flight of the “Crew Dragon” spacecraft (it is also known as “Drag ... Read more »

On August 1, 2020 at 23:34 UTC the US Crew Dragon (Demo-2 mission) spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth two American astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken.

On July 30, 2020 at 21:25 UTC (on July 31 at 00:25 Moscow time) the Russian "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "Briz-M” booster orbited the “Express-80” and “Express-103” telecommunications satellites.

On July 30, 2020 at 11:50 UTC the "Atlas-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the Mars 2020 mission. The Perseverance rover is the centerpiece of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which will seek signs of ancient microbial life forms that scientists believe could have populated the Red Planet billions of years ago.

On July 25, 2020 at 03:13 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 “Ziyuan-3” high-resolution mapping satellite; the “Tianqi-10” communication and data relay satellite and the “Lobster Eye 1” satellite with a wide-field X-ray astronomy instrument.

On July 23, 2020 at 17:44 UTC the Russian “Progress MS-15” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Pirs” module. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew.

On July 23, 2020 at 14:26 UTC the “Progress MS-15” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier.

On July 23, 2020 at 04:41 UTC the Chang Zheng-5 (Long March-5) 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 “Tianwen-1” automatic space vehicle. It’s Chinese robotic mission to orbit, land, and drive on Mars. It was China's first launch of a spacecraft towards another planet.