by David Todd | Aug 1, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA has ordered a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. The order represents the second manned, fully commercial NASA flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for SpaceX and its Dragon V2 capsule. Unmanned...
by David Todd | Jul 8, 2016 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 0136 GMT on 8 July 2016 the maiden launch of the new MS (Modernized Systems) variant of the Soyuz manned spacecraft was performed by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. On board the Soyuz MS-01 craft was a...
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, space station
The cargo spacecraft Progress MS-01 was deliberately undocked from the International Space Station on at 0545 on 1 July. The idea was for the spacecraft to pull away and then use a new version of the Toru remote manual control system with new software and a new signal...
by David Todd | Jun 27, 2016 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA
The first British/European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Major Tim Peake, ended his spaceflight mission when the Soyuz TMA-019M spacecraft detached itself from the International Space Station (ISS) to re-enter and land on 18 June 2016, near Zhezkazgan in...
by Matt Wilson | Jun 17, 2016 | COTS, International Space Station, NASA, Satellites, Science
The second enhanced-Cygnus cargo craft, Cygnus OA-6 (Rick Husband), undocked from the ISS (International Space Station) at 1143 GMT on 14 June 2016, and was released at 1330 GMT. For the return trip 1,854 kg of waste was loaded onto the craft. The secondary...
by David Todd | May 27, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Bigelow Aerospace and NASA engineers had to initially suspended an attempt to inflate the experimental inflatable module attached to the International Space Station after it failed to inflate properly. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) inflation had been...
