With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
Soyuz MS-24 was launched via a Soyuz 2-1a rocket into orbit at 1544 GMT on 15 September 2023 from Baikonur near Tyuryatam. The launch was a crewed flight to the International Space Station. Onboard Soyuz MS-24 is Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (just next door to Cape Canaveral), in Florida, USA,at 0727 GMT on 26 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying the a Crew Dragon (Endurance) spacecraft on the...
A Soyuz 2-1A launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) carrying the Progress MS-24 re-supply craft on 23 August at 0108 GMT. The crafts two-day flight will end when it autonomously docks with the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station (ISS) on...
At 1444 GMT on 9 August 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin , opened the Poisk module hatch to begin their Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk (Russian EVA-60). Their mission during this EVA was to attach three debris shields to the...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war between the nations has had ramifications for launches. The most obvious ones were removals of western-built satellites from Russian Soyuz or Proton launches, either as part of retaliatory sanctions or because of...
