by Matt Wilson | Oct 19, 2016 | exploration, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
At 0805 GMT, 19 October 2016, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Site 31/6, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-02 craft containing crew members of Expedition 49/50 to the International Space Station (ISS). The new crew members are two Russian...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 20, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced on 17 September 2016, that the next flight of the Soyuz-MS crew transport craft would be delayed for technical reasons after testing conducted at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. According to TASS, the Russian state news agency,...
by David Todd | Sep 8, 2016 | International Space Station, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-20M undocked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 2151 GMT on 6 September 2016. Aboard the craft were NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka. The capsule re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and...
by David Todd | Sep 2, 2016 | International Space Station
On 1 September, NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins made a spacewalk to make various changes and repairs to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). A trailing thermal control radiator located on the P6 truss was retracted to protect it from...
by David Todd | Sep 1, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, SpaceX
A major explosion has taken place at SpaceX launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 1 September. The explosion took place ahead of a prelaunch test of the full Falcon 9V1.2 FT-R rocket which was to launch the AMOS-6 communications satellite on 3 September. AMOS-6...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
A spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully put into place a new IDA-2 docking adapter which will convert the old PMA-2 Space Shuttle adaptor to one that can receive the new Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon craft. The IDA-2 adapter...
