At 0020 GMT on 26 October, Russia launched the third Progress re-supply mission of the year to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, and utilised a Soyuz 2-1a rocket. This mission was ...
While the guys who actually set foot on the Moon get all the plaudits, in truth the Apollo programme was a series of very important missions which acted as steps towards that great achievement. One of these missions, Apollo 9 was commanded by James McDivitt who has...
After a disastrous time in office of less than two months, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss lost the support of the Conservative Party and has handed in her resignation. She is being replaced by Rishi Sunak, the man she beat in the previous Conservative Party leadership...
Two different Soyuz rocket versions flew from launch sites at either end of Russia on 21 and 22 October. The first mission occurred at 1920 GMT, 21 October and saw a Soyuz 2-1v mission fly from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the North of Russia. The mission reportedly...
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully launched an LVM3-2 vehicle on a flight called LVM3 M2 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, at 1837 GMT on 22 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying 36 other OneWeb...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 54 Starlink v1.5 satellites as part of Group 4-36 at 1451 GMT on 20 October 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SLC-40 pad was used. The reusable booster B1062 on its tenth flight, landed down range on the drone ship A...
