by David Todd | May 3, 2013 | exploration, International Space Station, space station
In late April, it was announced that that ILS Dover, a US firm specialising in spacesuit design, had won a $4.4 million contract from NASA to design, manufacter and test an new design dubbed Z-2. The firm beat competitor Dave Clark Co for the...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, space station
At 1225 GMT on 26 April the freighter spacecraft Progress M-019M successfully docked with the International Space Station. This was despite having his Kurs A antenna jammed forward in launch configuration. In the end, the automatic docking...
by David Todd | Apr 24, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Space Shuttle, space station
A Soyuz U launch vehicle successfully launched Progress M-019M (ISS-51P) on its mission to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome located near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Aboard were 2.5 tons of cargo and supplies for the astronauts aboard the...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2013 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, space station
After some days of delay variously caused by a premature separation of an umbilical and high level winds, new Antares launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and using Russian moon rocket engine techology was successfully launched into orbit at...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, space station
Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station, Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko, performed spacewalk lasting six hours 38 minutes starting at 1402 GMT on 19 April. Their mission was to install and remove various experimental packages...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, space station
The Soyuz TMA-08M/ISS-34S mission carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov was launched successfully on a Soyuz FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (near Tyuratam) in Kazakhstan at 2043 GMT on 28 March...
