by David Todd | Feb 17, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
Progress M-026M re-supply craft was successfully launched at 1100 GMT on 17 February 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz-U launch vehicle. The Progress cargo spacecraft conducted a four orbit rapid rendezvous ascent to catch up...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2015 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, Russia, space station, SpaceX
Having had their cargo deliveries disrupted by the Antares 130 rocket failure which destroyed the Cygnus Orb 3 freighter, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) had been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the 9,700kg Dragon CRS-5 freighter. The Dragon...
by David Todd | Dec 1, 2014 | International Space Station, JAXA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
On 28 November 2014, the Japanese JEM-RMS robot arm grabbed the 57kg SpinSat (Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite) and its Cyclops deployer from the Kibo airlock and moved it outside ready for release. The Cyclops then ejected SpinSat into orbit at 1700 GMT that...
by David Todd | Nov 24, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
Soyuz TMA-015M was launched by a Soyuz FG at 2101 GMT on 23 November 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. Aboard the spacecraft were three crew on their way to the International Space Station (ISS): NASA Astronaut Terry Virts,...
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-013M undocked from ISS/Rassvet at 0031 GMT on 10 November 2014 It made its deorbit burn at 0305 GMT. The descent module Soyuz TMA-013M spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonaut and commander Maxim Suraev, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst...
by David Todd | Nov 5, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA
While dwindling engine supplies meant that Orbital Sciences Corp already had a plan to replace its elderly AJ-26 (refurbished Russian NK-33) engines used in pairs on the first stage of its Antares launch vehicle, the need to do this has been accelerated by the recent...
