 The 2nd space flight of Cygnus completed.
On February
19, 2014 at17:20 UTC the "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The
spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and burned up over the South Pacific
Ocean.
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Cygnus spacecraft was undocked from space station.
On February
18, 2014 the US "Cygnus” (CRS Orb-1 mission) unmanned supply spacecraft was
undocked from the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which had been
attached to the space station since January 12, was released by astronauts
aboard the station using the orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 11:41 UTC.
It was the second flight of "Cygnus” to the ISS. CRS Orb-1 is the first of
eight contracted flights by Orbital Sciences under NASA's Commercial Resupply
Services (CRS) program.
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Nanosatellites launched from Space Station.
On February 11, 12 and 13, 2014 several Nanosatellites were launched
from the International Space station. The Nanosatellites delivered to the ISS
by the "Cygnus” unmanned spacecraft were launched from the Japanese "Kibo”
module of the ISS
The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to
an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.
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Progress M-20M mission completed.
On February
11, 2014 at 15:06 UTC the "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft’s engines
were started for deorbiting. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the
South part of the Pacific at 15:54 UTC.
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Russian “Progress M-22M” spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On February
05, 2014 at 22:22 UTC (on February 06 at 02:22 Moscow time) the Russian
"Progress M-22M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space
Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module. The
spacecraft carried about 2400 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.
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Progress M-20M undocked from ISS.
On February
03, 2014 at 16:21 UTC the "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft was
undocked from the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module of the International Space
Station. The spacecraft is to be deorbited on February 11, 2014.
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Russian cosmonauts performed 2nd spacewalk to install cameras.
On January 27,
2014 Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy performed a spacewalk
to install a pair of video cameras on the exterior of the International Space Station.
The
spacewalk began at 18:10 Moscow time. The cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei
Ryazanskiy, installed high- and medium-resolution cameras outside the "Zvezda”
module.
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The 2nd “Cygnus” private spacecraft arrived at space station.
On January 12, 2014 the American "Cygnus” private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by astronauts inside the space station at 11:08 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Harmony” module. The official time of capture of the "Cygnus” with the Harmony module's common berthing mechanism was 13:05 UTC.
The spacecraft delivered 1,460 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. Among them the "Cygnus” delivered 33 tiny CubeSats to the space station. During the spacecraft's stay, the astronauts will move the miniature satellites into the station for release in February from the Japanese "Kibo” module using a specially-designed CubeSat deployer at the end of the Japanese robot arm.
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Private U.S. cargo spacecraft launched to Space Station.
On January 09 at 18:07 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island off the U.S. east coast., Va., USA.
The "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited by the company's "Аntares” rocket-carrier on its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft has been named for Gordon Fullerton, the late NASA astronaut and research pilot who helped to deploy air-launched Pegasus rockets built by Orbital Sciences Corporation while he was a pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
The spacecraft is carrying 1,260 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station, including food, spare part and science experiments, 23 of which are from U.S. and Canadian students.
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