We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of March that we haven’t covered on...
The first crewed test flight of Starliner finally lifted off from the ground following a series of stalled launch attempts. United Launch Alliance’s human-rated ATLAS V N22 (422) (RL10A-4-2) launch vehicle made its ascent from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 5 June at...
The Roscosmos-operated Progress MS-23 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Poisk module at 0755 GMT on 29 November. It made its deorbit burn at 1102 GMT and re-entered to burn up over the Pacific east of New Zealand at about 1145 GMT,...
Warning – this story is loaded with puns and might put you off your breakfast/lunch. During the 1960s and early 1970s, astronauts did not have a formal toilet, just not-nice-to-use faecal bags (US spelling “fecal” bags) and wet wipes, leading some to...
Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were alerted to a minor alarm on 9 October when they saw snowflakes outside the window of the station. The cause was a coolant leak on the external back-up radiator of the Nauka (MLM-U) module, according to Russian...
