At 1744 GMT on 21st March 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket rose from its launch pad at the Baikonur launch base near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The rocket was carrying the Soyuz MS-08 (ISS-54S) spacecraft which held three crew who were being carried on their way to the...
The likely life-changing effects of the allegedly Russian-produced Novichok nerve-poison assassination attempt on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, and to a lesser extent on an attending police officer, in the city of Salisbury, Southern...
Following the detachment of the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the ISS (International Space Station), at 2308 GMT on 27 February, the spacecraft carrying the three space-farers carried out a standard 3.5 hour return trip to Earth. Following separation of the OM (Orbital...
On 16 February astronauts Vande Hei and Kanai made spacewalk – more correctly known as an EVA (Extra Vehiclular Activity) – to reposition LEE-A (Latching End Effector A) that had previously been replaced on the end of the ISS robot arm (Canadarm-2),...
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying with cargo spacecraft Progress МS-08 successfully lifted off at 0813 GMT from the Baikonur Space Centre near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan on 13 February. The launch to orbit took just eight minutes and 48 seconds. However, the spacecraft faces...
Suited up in their Orlan space suites, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov made a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to install an upgraded electronics box on a high-gain communications antenna on Zvezda service module. The old...
