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 | Mar 11, 2014 | International Space Station, JAXA, Russia, Soyuz
While Russian and the Western nations wrestle with the Ukranian annexation crisis, for the time being it is business as usual for the International Space Station (ISS)and its respective astronaut crews. As planned, the Soyuz TMA-010M manned spacecraft undocked from...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2014 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites, Science
A spacecraft called Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory which has been to measure rainfall on Earth has been launched by an H-IIA launch vehicle from the Japanese launch site at Tanegashima on 28 February 2014. The mission, which was valued at...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2013 | Apollo, China, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It is at this time of year (well actually a little later than usual) when the Flightglobal/Ascend space team considers who is in the lead in the race to return astronauts to the Moon. Last year, we did an analysis of what a nation needed to put its astronauts on the...
by David Todd | Oct 8, 2013 | China, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, SLS, Technology
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is held every year in a different world city. As China has become the “third force” in manned spaceflight, it was logical and correct that Beijing, China’s capital city, should be selected as the venue...
by David Todd | Oct 2, 2013 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites, Seradata News
Having struggled for several years to attract commercial satellites to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have finally found a commercial customer for the H2A vehicle. On 26 September MHI announced a launch contract with Telesat Canada for the launch of the Telstar...
