by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News
While Glavkosmos has a share in GK Launch Services, the marketing arm for Soyuz rockets, it will now get another body under its umbrella. By order of Roscosmos, Glavkosmos will now take over control of International Launch Services (ILS), the marketer of the Proton...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, space station
In a new extra vehicular activity (EVA) session on 8 April, more colloquially known as a spacewalk, two astronauts had to change a recently fitted battery on the International Space Station (ISS) which was proving defective. The Lithium Ion battery which had been...
by David Todd | Apr 5, 2019 | International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
A Progress 2.1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1101 GMT on 4 April. Aboard was the Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft which followed a “very fast” approach set of manoeuvres ahead of its docking with the...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2019 | Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
There was a sense of déjà vu for the crew of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft as it was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1914 GMT on 14 March. Or at least it was for two of the three crew. For Cosmonaut...
by David Todd | Jan 30, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
The Roscosmos unmanned Progress MS-09 cargo freighter which has been attached to the International Space Station (ISS) since July has now left it. It undocked from the ISS Pirs module at 1255 GMT on 25 January. It made a de-orbit burn at 1608 GMT and re-entered over...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While it might be more than two years past its “use-by” date – i.e. its five-year minimum design life – Russia has keenly felt the loss of its in-orbit radio astronomy telescope, Spektr-R (Radioastron). The spacecraft, built by NPO Lavotchkin to detect gamma and X-ray...
