by David Todd | Mar 27, 2017 | Add category, ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 24. The main job was to disconnect cables and electrical connections on...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2017 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
Having been unloaded in late February, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-10 (CRS1-10) spacecraft was unberthed from the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 2145 GMT on 18 March after its NASA delivery mission. At 0911 GMT on 19 March DRAGON CRS-10 was released...
by David Todd | Jan 16, 2017 | Add category, ESA, International Space Station, NASA
While the previous spacewalk put in three new lithium ion batteries, a new spacewalk was needed to continue the battery replacement task and the new adapters that carry them. On 13 January 2017, during their 5 hour 58 minute EVA beginning at 1122 GMT, NASA astronaut...
by David Todd | Jan 13, 2017 | Add category, Seradata News
A Roscosmos State Corporation investigation, into the launch failure of a Soyuz-U launch vehicle which lost the Progress MS-04 cargo mission to the International Space Station, has found a likely cause: particle contamination in the third stage engine oxidiser pump....
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2017 | Add category, Launches, Military space
While US$100,000 is not a great deal of money in the great scheme of things. However, it was enough to satisfy the government of its good intent when the joint Boeing/Lockheed Martin-owned launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) paid it as part of an agreement...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2016 | Add category, History, NASA, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
On 8 December 2016, NASA and the rest of the USA was mourning the death of one of its astronaut heros – John Glenn – a US Marine fighter pilot of World War II and the Korean War – and the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn made the first orbital spaceflight for...
