The US military is now under orders from the US Congress to end the use of any commercial satellites that have been launched by Russian or Russian-sourced rockets. The ban comes into play from 2023 onwards and raises doubts over the commercial viability of the Proton...
Roscosmos has revealed to NASA that the Soyuz MS-02 capsule’s re-entry and landing in April – carrying astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko back to Earth from the International Space Station – did not go quite to plan. At 8 km...
The launch of the Progress MS-07 on the ISS-68P mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) ended in a no-go when a launch abort was triggered in the final minute before lift off on 12 October. The launch had been due to take place at 0932:03 GMT but...
Arianespace announced on 14 September that it had received the first two confirmed launch orders/confirmations for its new Ariane 6 launch vehicle (the SES O3b constellation currently holds options). The rockets, which will fly in a -62 configuration using two solid...
The launch arranger Glavkosmos might have denied it, but there is increasing suspicion that something went wrong on the flight of a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat M that launched 72 mainly cubesat-class satellites in July. The main imaging satellite payload Kanopus V-IA was...
The Soyuz MS-03/ISS-49S manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1047 GMT on 2 June. It was carrying two passengers, Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who rode into space on the...
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