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 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...
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...
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...
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, at 0714 GMT on 29 August. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle carried the freighter making up the SpaceX CRS-23 mission into a low Earth orbit, from where it...
Northrop Grumman launched a Cygnus resupply spacecraft on one of its Antares launch vehicles from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at the Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, on 10 August. It was the company’s 16th cargo resupply mission under NASA contract and will...
