by David Todd | Apr 28, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is believed that the Roscosmos-operated freighter/resupply vessel Progress M-027M (aka ISS-59P) launched into orbit on its way to the International Space Station has now failed in orbit. The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz 2-1A rocket fired from the Baikonur...
by David Todd | Mar 30, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Soyuz
A pair of Soyuz rockets were launched into orbit on the same day. At 1943 GMT on 27 March 2015, a Soyuz FG launched the TMA-016M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The flight carried Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2015 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Soyuz TMA-014M successfully undocked from the International Space Station at 1016 GMT on 11 March 2014 with three space travellers aboard: Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore. The space travellers planned return...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, JAXA, Russia
In a similar way to arranging a semi-amicable divorce, Russia has formally given notice to its spacefaring partner nations, NASA, ESA and JAXA, that it will remain part of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, the year that NASA itself wants to end the...
by David Todd | Feb 23, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle, SpaceX
NASA astronaut, Barry Wilmore, along with fellow astronaut, Terry Virts, ventured outside of the International Space Station on 21 February 2014, in the first of three EVA assignments to prepare the ISS with docking equipment to accept US Commercial crew spacecraft....
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Satellites
After a longer than usual stay lasting over half a year, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) cargo ship ATV-05 (Georges Lemaitre) undocked from the International Space Station’s Zvezda module at 1342 GMT on 14 February 2015. The ATV-5 craft carried some 2.5...
