Portal:Spaceflight/Spaceflight news/2013 archive

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• 28 December: Russia conducts the maiden flight of the Soyuz-2-1v rocket.

• 14 December: Chang'e 3 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since 1976, and deploys the Jade Rabbit rover.
• 9 December: Sino-Brazilian satellite CBERS-3 is lost after a launch failure.
• 3 December: SpaceX succeeds with its first commercial satellite launch, lifting the SES-8 communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit with the Falcon 9 rocket.
• 21 November: ISC Kosmotras breaks a record with the launch of 33 separate microsatellites on a single Dnepr-1 rocket from Dombarovsky Air Base, Russia.
• 18 November: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
• 13 November: NASA has wound down its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services development program following the successful certification of SpaceX Dragon and Orbital Sciences Cygnus for the Commercial Resupply Services program.
• 5 November: ISRO successfully launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, which is planned as India's first mission to Mars.
• 14 October: Juno has recovered from a glitch that caused it to enter safe mode after its gravity assist fly-by of Earth.
• 10 October: Scott Carpenter, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, died at age 88.
• 29 September: The Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket completes its first launch, launching CASSIOPE and several smaller payloads into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
• 29 September: Cygnus Orb-D1 is captured by, and docked with, the International Space Station, the first docking by a Cygnus spacecraft.
• 23 September: Gennady Padalka has been announced to replace Yury Lonchakov as commander of ISS Expedition 44 following Lonchakov's resignation from the Russian Federal Space Agency.
• 20 September: NASA has abandoned all efforts to contact the lost Deep Impact probe.
• 12 September: NASA confirms that Voyager 1 has exited the heliosphere and is now in interstellar space.
• 12 September: NASA has identified three asteroids for potential capture and visitation under the Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization initiative.
• 21 August: NASA astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, veteran of two Space Shuttle flights, passes away, aged 76.
• 19 July: Cassini takes a mosaic image of Saturn eclipsing the Sun, and images Earth and the Moon in the process.
• 19 July: Jeff Bezos announces that the two F-1 rocket engines he recovered from the Atlantic Ocean in April 2013 came from the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11.
• 15 August: More studies are claiming Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System's heliosphere, though NASA claims it has not yet.
• 16 July: An EVA at the International Space Station is aborted early when a water leak in Luca Parmitano's Extravehicular Mobility Unit fills his helmet with water.
• 10 July: The LORRI camera on the New Horizons probe images Pluto and Charon as separate objects for the first time, at a distance of 880 million km.
• 2 July: A Proton-M rocket fails shortly after launch and crashes at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, destroying several GLONASS satellites. Nobody on the ground was hurt.