by David Todd | Jul 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, SpaceX
After a series of three unrelated launch failures, the crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) finally got resupplied when the unmanned freighter Progress M-028M lifted off as planned from Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0455 GMT on 3 July...
by David Todd | Jun 28, 2015 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, SpaceX
At 1421 GMT on 28 June 2015 a Falcon 9R – a derivative of the standard Falcon 9v1.1 launch vehicle – lifted off from the Cape Canaveral launch site. While all at first appeared to be normal, the launch vehicle exploded in a cloud of vapour 2 minutes 19...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
Soyuz TMA-015M undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1020 GMT on 11 June 2015 ready for its re-entry the same day. Despite concerns that it had previously made an un-commanded thruster firing while attached to the station, all went well in the...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | International Space Station, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-015M spacecraft that was due to return astronauts back to Earth made an unintentional thruster firing on 9 June 2015 while connected to the International Space Station (ISS). The firing took place at 1527 GMT, apparently during testing of a radio system...
by David Todd | May 29, 2015 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
In a move to free up an Earth facing docking port for future commercial docking missions to the International Space Station (ISS), on 28 May 2014 the Permanent Multi-purpose Module (PMM) was moved from the Unity module to a port on the Tranquility module. The...
by David Todd | May 22, 2015 | International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-6 cargo freighter spacecraft chartered by NASA was successfully unberthed from the International Space Station using its robot arm with astronaut Scott Kelly at the arm’s controls. It was then released into space at 1204 GMT on 21 May...
