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...
The 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018) was held in the city of Bremen near the coast of Northern Germany. The Congress is both a technical symposium, where engineers, scientists and even lawyers present their papers, and a place where the great space...
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the crewed Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, which was launched at 0840 GMT on 11 October 2018 from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, has suffered a fault during its climb into orbit and failed to achieve orbital velocity. A...
Following delays caused by both the weather and the launch vehicle, at 1752 GMT, on 22 September, the seventh HTV (HTV-7) resupply freighter was launched to the ISS by its Mitsubishi Industries (MHI) supplied H-2B rocket. The freighter, which will be docking with the...
NASA has reported that the crew aboard the International Space Station have had to to patch an air leak after an a microfracture hole was discovered on one of the Soyuz transportation craft that carried three of them to the station. While noticeable, the pressure...
At 1617 GMT on 15 August 2018, Cosmonauts Oleg Artemev and Sergey Prokopyev opened the hatch of the Pirs module on the International Space Station (ISS) to start a seven hour 46 minute spacewalk. The EVA ended at 0003 GMT on 16 August with the spacewalkers...
