On the 28 February, spacewalking NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover made an extra vehicular activity (EVA) in order to add new structure to support new solar arrays which will begin to be installed later this year. Solar cells degrade over time and so the...
The US commercial unmanned space freighter Cygnus NG-15 (Katherine Johnson) was launched successfully by an Antares 230+ rocket at 1736 GMT on 20 February from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The 8,050 kg craft was launched on a...
The Progress MS-16 cargo craft was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0445 GMT on 15 February. The spacecraft was carrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The craft used the standard two day rendezvous...
Filled with trash, Russian cargo craft Progress MS-15 (ISS-76P) undocked from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Pirs module at 0521 GMT on 9 February. Just over three hours later it fired its engines in a deorbit burn at 0830 GMT. The spacecraft made a...
Two spacewalking astronauts took part in “extra vehicular activity” EVA-70 from the International Space Station (ISS) on 1 February 2021. The astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover had the main role of replacing a battery and installing three cameras....
On 27 January 2021, two NASA spacewalkers conducted an extra vehicular activity to made some significant modifications to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts Victor Hopkins and Mike Glover began their spacewalk with the Quest air lock hatch being opened...
