by Philip Hylands | Mar 4, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX, test
A Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 launch vehicle successfully launched the first unmanned test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule – called DM-1 – at 0749 GMT on 2 March. The launch took place from Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Cape Canaveral in Florida. The initial orbit achieved...
by Philip Hylands | Mar 4, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Soyuz
A Soyuz ST-B with a Fregat MT upper stage successfully launched OneWeb 0006-0012 satellites at 2137 GMT on 27 February. The launch took place from the Sinnamary Launch Centre, near Kourou in French Guiana. The satellites will form part of the OneWeb constellation...
by Philip Hylands | Oct 3, 2018 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Suborbital, Technology
The German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and Spanish, new-space, launch provider, PLD Space signed an agreement on 2 October, during the 69th IAC in Bremen, Germany, for the first test flight of the Arion 1 sub-orbital launch vehicle. The...
by Philip Hylands | Aug 20, 2018 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
At 1617 GMT on 15 August 2018, Cosmonauts Oleg Artemev and Sergey Prokopyev opened the hatch of the Pirs module on the International Space Station (ISS) to start a seven hour 46 minute spacewalk. The EVA ended at 0003 GMT on 16 August with the spacewalkers...
by Philip Hylands | Jun 7, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 1112 GMT on 6 June 2011 a Soyuz FG rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The crew aboard the Soyuz MS-09 (ISS-55S) spacecraft consisted of Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, NASA Astronaut Dr Serena Aunon-Chancellor and ESA...
