China launched the Tianzhou-2 resupply freighter to the Chinese Space Station (CSS) at 1255 GMT, on 29 May. The mission lifted-off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Southern China, and utilised a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket. Following its launch the freighter...
China successfully launched its 22.5 metric ton Tianhe 1 (“Heavenly Harmony 1”) space station module into low Earth orbit (LEO) on a Long March 5B/Y2 (CZ-5BY2) vehicle at 0318 GMT on 29 April from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, on Hainan Island, China. The...
The Soyuz MS-17 capsule undocked from the International Space Station Poisk module on 17 April to begin its return to Earth. Following a de-orbit burn at 0401 GMT on 19 April 2021, the capsule safely landed at 0455 GMT on 19 April near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Crew...
Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 0742 GMT on 9 April the Soyuz MS-18 mission carried three crew members to the ISS. The mission utilised a Soyuz 2-1A rocket to loft the Soyuz capsule into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), inclined at 51.6 degrees....
Two astronauts, NASA’s Kathleen Rubins and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi, ventured out of the International Space Station (ISS) on 5 March for a near seven hour EVA spacewalk to finish work on the P6 truss new struts and brackets at locations 2B and 4B. The work...
On the 28 February, spacewalking NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover made an extra vehicular activity (EVA) in order to add new structure to support new solar arrays which will begin to be installed later this year. Solar cells degrade over time and so the...
