In a new extra vehicular activity (EVA) session on 8 April, more colloquially known as a spacewalk, two astronauts had to change a recently fitted battery on the International Space Station (ISS) which was proving defective. The Lithium Ion battery which had been...
A Progress 2.1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1101 GMT on 4 April. Aboard was the Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft which followed a “very fast” approach set of manoeuvres ahead of its docking with the...
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain successfully fitted new batteries to the power system of the International Space Station (ISS) during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) on 22 March. McClain led the six hour 39 minute long spacewalk as the EV1 command...
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...
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been “unberthed” from the Unity module using the International Space Station’s robot arm, it was released at 1616...
The Roscosmos unmanned Progress MS-09 cargo freighter which has been attached to the International Space Station (ISS) since July has now left it. It undocked from the ISS Pirs module at 1255 GMT on 25 January. It made a de-orbit burn at 1608 GMT and re-entered over...
