Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began the second of their planned spacewalks as they continued the outfitting of the Nauka module. They opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1451 GMT on 9 September. Their...
A Soyuz 2-1v rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military launch site in Northern Russia at 1959 GMT on 9 September. The satellite carried has been given the codename Cosmos-2551 (Kosmos-2551) to indicate that it is a Russian military satellite. In fact it is a...
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began their first of up to eleven planned spacewalks when they opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1441 GMT on 3 September. Their mission objective was to prepare the...
Vladimir Soloyov, Chief Engineer at the spacecraft manufacturer Energia, has noted via the RIA News Agency that the International Space Station (ISS) is slowly breaking down. Cracks discovered in the Russian-built Zvezda module in 2019 had been repaired by Roscosmos...
At 2213 GMT on 21 August a Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying 34 satellites for the OneWeb constellation. This launch, the fifth so far this year, takes the in-orbit satellite count to 288, out of a planned total of around...
Some years ago this column started its annual analysis called “The Great Space Race”. The idea was that while the original “Moon race” ended in 1969 when the USA beat the Soviet Union onto the lunar surface with its Apollo 11 human landing, a new one has...
