The history of the troubles in Northern Ireland is a long and bitter one – and that bitterness continues given that walls – figurative and actual – still exist between the Protestant Unionist community and the rapidly growing (due to its higher...
At 0736 GMT on 3 October 2019, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft (aka ISS-58S) undocked with the ISS carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, US astronaut Nick Hague and the first UAE astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori aboard. Later the same day, the spacecraft made a...
Having been undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), the unmanned, albeit with the Skybot F-850 robot aboard, Soyuz MS-14 descent module landed in rural Kazakhstan at 2132 GMT on 6 September 2019. The spacecraft had originally had trouble docking with the...
At 0338 GMT on 22 August 2019, a Soyuz 2.1a rocket successully launched the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft into orbit from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. While such Soyuz MS spacecraft usually carry cosmonauts and astronauts, this flight had no humans...
A Soyuz 2-1B with Fregat M upper stage successfully launched at 0541 GMT on 5 July 2019 from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far East. The primary payload is the Russian Meteor M 2-2 meteorological satellite, however, the launcher also carried a further 32 small...
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...
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