by David Todd | Feb 28, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station
The cause of the water leak fault that endangered the life of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano while on a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (ISS) has been discovered. NASA has revealed that after a long investigation that coolant contamination was...
by David Todd | Feb 21, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station
The Orbital Science Cygnus Orb 1 unmanned freighter spacecraft which resupplied astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has now been detached from the Harmony module and deliberately re-entered into the Earth’s atmosphere. Over a month after the...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2014 | International Space Station, Satellites, Seradata News
The “Flock” of 28 Dove 3U-cubesats which were launched on the Cygnus-Orb 1 cargo spacecraft have begun to be released from the International Space Station. The first batch of 16 Dove satellites were loaded into eight nanoracks (two Doves on each) which...
by David Todd | Feb 6, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully launched its Progress M-022M cargo freighter spacecraft (aka ISS-54P) on its way from the Baikonur cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1623 GMT on 5 February 2014 using a Soyuz U rocket. The...
by David Todd | Jan 29, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
On 27 January 2014, cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy performed another EVA/spacewalking lasting over six hours. Exiting from the Pirs module at 1400 GMT the cosmonauts made a second attempt to install two video cameras on a biaxial pointing platform on the...
by David Todd | Jan 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
The recently launched Cygnus Orb-1 cargo craft, as operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation on behalf of NASA, approached the International Space Station on 12 January. Having moved to within 10m of the station, the spacecraft was grappled by the station’s...
