by David Todd | Dec 15, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-017M spacecraft undocked from Rassvet module of ISS at 0947 GMT on 11 December 2015. Aboard the Soyuz were its commander Oleg Kononenko, Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren. Following undocking the Soyuz had a few hours...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2015 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, Seradata News
Some unexpected news from the launch failure of the Falcon 9R (v1.1R) rocket on 28 June 2015. On 26 November 2015, a large part of the unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule carried on that flight was discovered floating in the sea by local boatmen between Bryher and...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
On 20 November 2015, SpaceX was formally awarded a formal launch order from its NASA contract to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This was the second in a series of four guaranteed launch orders NASA is making to SpaceX and Boeing (two...
by David Todd | Nov 10, 2015 | International Space Station, NASA
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren spent a total of seven hours and 48 minutes working outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk (extra vehicular activity) to fix the port truss (P6) ammonia cooling system back to its original configuration....
by David Todd | Oct 2, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station
The Progress M-029M cargo spacecraft was launched into orbit on top of a Soyuz-U launch vehicle at 1649 GMT on 1 October 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, in Kazakhstan. After using the rapid approach technique, Progress M-029M docked with the rear...
by David Todd | Sep 29, 2015 | International Space Station, JAXA
The empty Japanese cargo spacecraft HTV-5 (Kounotori-5) cargo craft was filled with rubbish that the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) no longer wanted. After being unberthed from its docking station at 1120 GMT the spacecraft was released by the Canadarm...
