by David Todd | Nov 19, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchcov – the two Sergeys – made an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) – more commonly known as a spacewalk, from the airlock on the Poisk module on the International Space Station on 18 November 2020.... 
by David Todd | Nov 16, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a SpaceX CrewDragon spacecraft (dubbed Resilience) for NASA’s commercially-purchased Crew-1 mission was launched on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the old Space Shuttle Pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center... 
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia
Soyuz MS-16, having undocked from the International Space Station at 2332 GMT on 21 October 2020, proceeded to make its deorbit burn at 0200 GMT on 22 October before separate into three modules with the landing module carrying three crew Russian cosmonauts Anatoliy... 
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2020 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) space probe successfully descended, matched the asteroid Bennu’s rotational speed and landed on it on 20 October. The manoeuvre was a touch-and-go... 
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2020 | ESA, exploration, NASA, Seradata News
The European Space Agency (ESA) took the opportunity at the International Astronautical Congress IAC 2020 (Online/Cyberspace edition) to announce contracts related to exploration. First out of the bag was the €491 million construction contract awarded to Airbus... 
by David Todd | Oct 14, 2020 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
In a record-breaking flight, the Soyuz MS-17 crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched by a Soyuz 2.1a from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 0545 GMT on 14 October. On board were NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and...
