A Zenit-2 launch vehicle rolled out with the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 6, 2011. Zenit-2 lifted off with Phobos-Grunt on November 9. The spacecraft failed to fire the escape engines and it is right now stuck in orbit around the Earth. The Russian Federal Space Agency makes efforts to save the mission.
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On October 31, 2011, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle rolled out with three Glonass-M satellites. Proton-M lifted off on November 4, 2011.
On November 3, 2011, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was rolled out of the processing facility. MSL launch is scheduled for November 25, 2011.
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Progress M-13M (a.k.a. ISS Progress 45 in the western designation) docked to the International Space Station on November 2, 2011. Progress delivered almost three tons of food, fuel, and supplies.
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On October 28, 2011, a Soyuz-U launch vehicle rolled out at Baikonur with Progress M-13M. Progress will deliver scientific equipment, fuel, food and water for the crew, and other equipment to the International Space Station. Soyuz-U/Progress M-13M lifted off on October 30, 2011. Progress M-13M is scheduled to dock at the station on November 2, 2011.
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On October 25, 2011, the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The NPP mission will collect and distribute data to the meteorological and global climate change communities.
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