Soyuz TMA-12M with new ISS mission crew comprised by Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos) and Stephen Swanson (NASA) was successfully launched from “Gagarin” launchpad of Baikonur spaceport with the help of Soyuz-FG booster.

A Russian Progress-M spacecraft burned up over the Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening in a planned descent following a successful mission to the International Space Station.

Progress M-20M cargo vehicle, undocked from the ISS on February 3, 2014, that has been performing controlled flight for 8 days during which scientific experiment was carried out on its board, will be deorbited on February 11, - Mission Control Centre representative reported.

Progress M-20M has been a part of the ISS from July 28,2013. At the present time the spacecraft is undocked from the station and sent for controlled flight during this flight “Curve” scientific experiment will be conducted onboard the vehicle. “Progress will be sank in non-navigational area of the Pacific ocean on February 11, 2014, - the spokesman stated.

Undocking is scheduled for February 3, 20:20 Moscow time. The spacecraft will perform controlled flight for “the Curve” scientific experiment. After that the vehicle will be sank in the Pacific Ocean on February 11, - the spokesman stated. The Curve scientific experiment is aimed at microacceleration level detection, development of mathematical model of gravitational conditions onboard the station and exploration of onboard systems operating modes impact on the ISS flight conditions.

Medium altitude of the ISS orbit was increased by about 2 km with the help of docked with the ISS…

ISS reboost maneuver was to take place on January 16 to create optimal conditions for Progress M-22M cargo vehicle launched from Baikonur on February 5 docking with the ISS. However today the spokesman for space industry reported that Station reboost maneuver scheduled for January 16 was shifted to January 18 because of space debris.

During unscheduled spacewalk Russian cosmonauts will have to re-install mid and high resolution cameras on the external surface of the ISS. Doing their previous EVA on December 27 crewmembers failed to complete the entire program: installed cameras didnt work properly.

This Friday, on January 10, 2014 MCC specialists took a decision on unscheduled spacewalks to be performed on January 27…

The orbit of the International Space Station was raised on Friday to ensure successful docking of a Russian spacecraft at the beginning of the next year, a spokesman for Mission Control Center in Russia said.