Roscosmos Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began their spacewalk (VKD-61) on 25 October. With the Poisk airlock depressurized from 1729 GMT, the cosmonauts opened the hatch at 1749 GMT. Their mission was to install a synthetic radar...
Russian space agency Roscosmos has released its preliminary report about the crash of Luna 25 onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 25, having achieved lunar orbit, was executing a manoeuvre on 19 August to lower this to an elliptical 110 x 16 km “pre-landing orbit” in...
With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
Soyuz MS-24 was launched via a Soyuz 2-1a rocket into orbit at 1544 GMT on 15 September 2023 from Baikonur near Tyuryatam. The launch was a crewed flight to the International Space Station. Onboard Soyuz MS-24 is Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight...
The effects of Russia’s war with Ukraine are being felt in unexpected places. Elon Musk, CEO and Founder of SpaceX, has taken a hand in the progress of the war – and been strongly criticised for doing so. Meanwhile, Russia is running out of munitions and is allegedly...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (just next door to Cape Canaveral), in Florida, USA,at 0727 GMT on 26 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying the a Crew Dragon (Endurance) spacecraft on the...
