by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
In a sign of strengthening resolve over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its alleged attempts to annex Eastern Ukraine, Western nations are beginning to pull their spacecraft from Russian launches or bar commercial satellites from using them. Canada was first to go...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA
US Astronauts Rick Mastracchi and Steve Swanson make and extravehicular activity (spacewalk) on 23 April to swap out a failed back up MDM computer relay on the S-0 truss outside of the International Space Station’s modules. The back up MDM...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station, Technology
After his launch in 2011, this Space Intelligence news column previously dubbed the Robonaut 2 (R2) robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with the nickname “Dougie” after Douglas Bader the famous World War 2 fighter pilot, as in common with...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Seradata News, SpaceX
After various delays involving a radar station fire and a launch vehicle helium leak, the commercial unmanned space freighter, Dragon CRS 3, was successfully launched at 1915 GMT on 18 April 2014 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its mission carrying supplies to the...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The unmanned freighter spacecraft, Progress M-023M (ISS-55P), was successfully launched on a Soyuz-U launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1526GMT on 9 April 2014. After using the “fast” six-hour engine burn...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Satellites
The unmanned freighter spacecraft Progress M-022M has undocked and moved away from the International Space Station’s Pirs module at 1358 GMT on 7 April 2014, having been docked there since 5 February 2014. Apart from this departure’s benefit of freeing up...
