by David Todd | Jun 23, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Science, Seradata News, space station
On 19 June 2014, two cosmonauts, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, ventured out of the International Space Station and performed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours. After depressurisation, the spacewalkers left the airlock at 1410 GMT to begin a work schedule...
by David Todd | May 30, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz, space station
Carrying NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Max Suraev of Roscosmos, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst, the Soyuz TMA-013M manned spacecraft was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle from the Baikonur...
by David Todd | May 21, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
Introduction Held in Dubai every two years and organised by the underwriting agency Elseco, the World Space Risk Forum has now become the pre-eminent conference on space insurance. Space Insurers, brokers, satellite operators, manufacturers and launch providers along...
by David Todd | May 19, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, JAXA, space station, SpaceX
Having been loaded and having had its hatch closed the day before, the SpaceX Dragon CRS 3 cargo spacecraft was un-berthed by the Space Station robot arm Canadarm-2 at 1200 GMT on 18 May 2014 and fully released the same day at 1326 GMT. The craft made a deorbit burn...
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The landing capsule of the Soyuz TMA-011M manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station AT 2236 GMT on 14 May 2014 carrying three crew: Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and US astronaut Ric, Mastriacchio. The...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Seradata News
It a test to retry the Kurs-NA automatic rendezvous and docking system, the Progress M-021M was released from the International Space Station. at 0858 GMT on 23 April 2014. Issues with the system resulted in a longer than planned approach to the station on a previous...
