by David Todd | Oct 29, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
After the failure of the Antares 130 launch of a Cygnus Orb-3 cargo craft to the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle showed how it should be done. It successfully launched the Progress M-025M launch vehicle on a “fast...
by David Todd | Oct 29, 2014 | International Space Station, Launches, Space Insurance
A formal insurance claim for US$214 million has been made for the loss of a satellite telecommunications beam on the ABS-2 communications payload. The failure was first discovered in July when a Ku-band beam fault on spacecraft led to outage affecting its customers. ...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
The launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares 130 rocket carrying the Cygnus Orb-3 cargo craft to the International Space Station (ISS) came to a fiery end 12 seconds after its lift off at 2122 GMT on 28 October 2014 from the Wallops Island launch pad on the coast...
by David Todd | Oct 27, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station, SpaceX
The International Space Station said goodbye to two cargo craft in late October. Dragon CRS-4, operated as a recoverable “up and down” cargo freighter for NASA by SpaceX, was unberthed from the station by the ISS robot arm at 1202 GMT on 25 October and...
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Russian cosmonauts, Max Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev, made the last planned spacewalk of the year outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalk lasted three hours and 38 minutes and starting at 1328 GMT on 22 October 2014. During the EVA (Extra...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA
US Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry “Butch” Wilmore performed an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) beginning at 1216 GMT and lasting for 6 hours and 36 minutes on 15 October 2014. The main job of the astronauts on their spacewalk was to replace a Sequential...
