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Astronauts prepare the ISS for next solar upgrade
Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA switched their spacesuits to battery power at 1215 GMT on 12 September to begin their spacewalk from the Quest airlock. During the mission the astronauts had to install a “mod kit” at the base of the 4A...
Cosmonauts continue work on outfitting Nauka
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began the second of their planned spacewalks as they continued the outfitting of the Nauka module. They opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1451 GMT on 9 September. Their...
Soyuz 2-1v launches Cosmos 2551 – Russia’s new Razbeg military imaging type satellite in September – but it was an apparent failure (Updated)
A Soyuz 2-1v rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military launch site in Northern Russia at 1959 GMT on 9 September. The satellite carried has been given the codename Cosmos-2551 (Kosmos-2551) to indicate that it is a Russian military satellite. In fact it is a...
Rocket Lab gets five launch order to launch 25 Kineis satellites
The New Zealand/US-based small rocket launch operator Rocket Lab has landed a five-Electron KS launches deal to launch 25 satellites for the Kineis "Internet of Things" (IoT) communicaitons constellation. The dedicated launches will begin in Q2 2023. The deal, whose...
China launches the Chinasat 9B communications satellite using Long March 3B rocket
China successfully launched a Long March 3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) launch vehicle at 1150 GMT on 9 September from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. It was carrying the Chinasat 9B (Zhongxing 9B) Civil communications satellite. The satellite which will eventually...
Long March 4C launches Gaofen 5-02
At 0301 GMT a Long March 4C carrying the Gaofen 5-02 satellite was launched successfully from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Northern China. The satellite is for Earth imaging and remote sensing satellite and is thought to be for civilian use.
ISS Cosmonauts complete the first of up to eleven planned spacewalks in aid of new module
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began their first of up to eleven planned spacewalks when they opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1441 GMT on 3 September. Their mission objective was to prepare the...
Cracking Up: Russian space engineering chief warns that aging International Space Station’s safety cannot be guaranteed
Vladimir Soloyov, Chief Engineer at the spacecraft manufacturer Energia, has noted via the RIA News Agency that the International Space Station (ISS) is slowly breaking down. Cracks discovered in the Russian-built Zvezda module in 2019 had been repaired by Roscosmos...
Maiden orbital attempt for Firefly Alpha ends in explosion two minutes after launch (Updated)
Launching from California, the two-stage Alpha rocket from Firefly was attempting to complete its maiden flight when it was seen to tumble and explode. After an earlier launch delay at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, the rocket lifted off successfully at 0159 GMT on...
FAA grounds Virgin Galactic over flight trajectory anomaly during Sir Richard Branson’s suborbital launch (Updated)
The air-dropped suborbital launch of SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity carrying two crew plus four company trial passengers, including Virgin Galactic’s founder Sir Richard Branson, suffered a previously undisclosed trajectory anomaly involving a deviation from its air traffic...
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