A launch vehicle Soyuz-U with the cargo spacecraft Progress M-09M left the assembly and test facility area 112 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on January 26, 2011. The launch vehicle was elevated on the pad at the Launch Complex #1, Gagarin\’s start.
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The Japanese resuply ship KOUNOTORI 2 was captured and berthed to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on January 27, 2011. KOUNOTORI 2 will leave the station at the end of March.
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On January 22, 2011, the H-IIB F2 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center with HTV2, the Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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On January 20, 2011, a Zenit-2SB/Fregat-SB launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Electro-L. Electro-L is a Russian Earth-science satellite.
On Friday, December 17, 2010, NASA conducted a test fire of the liquid-fueled AJ26 engine. Two AJ26 engines will power the first stage of the Orbital’s Taurus II launch vehicle. The engine test ran for fifty-five seconds. The Aerojet AJ26 engines are derived from the Russian NK-33 engines. The NK-33 engines, after spending four decades in storage, are being refurbished by Aerojet and qualified for U.S. propellants.
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Soyuz TMA-20 docked to the International Space Station on Friday, December 17, 2010. Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, and ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli complete the Expedition 26 crew.
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