It was return time for the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft which originally arrived and docked at the International Space Station on 16 December 2018. Having been unberthed from Harmony Nadir Port, the ISS robot arm released the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft at 2333 GMT on 13...
While it may have been a calculated move to try and force international acceptance for his long time ally, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s decision to appoint him as head of the space agency/industrial complex Roscosmos...
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Propkopev made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module, which had had a hole apparently accidently drilled through it...
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
The HTV-7 (Kounotori-7) cargo craft of Japan was unberthed from its connection to the International Space Station by the ISS robot arm at 1132 GMT on 7 November 2018 (Recorrected). The robot arm then released the JAXA-owned HTV-7 into independent orbit at 1651 GMT on...
