On 2 December 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan conducted an EVA (Spacewalk) exiting the Quest Airlock of the ISS at 1131 GMT. The crew completed the primary task to install upgraded tracker thermal pump system (UTTPS) into the AMS-2...
While the overall International Space Station (ISS) is so large that an individual science instrument is relatively insignificant – such was the importance of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-2) – worth US$2 billion – that a series of...
Launching at 1400 GMT, on 2 November 2019, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, a top off an Antares 230+ rocket was the Cygnus NG-12 mission. Cygnus NG-12 is a commercial resupply mission to the ISS (International Space Station) contracted to...
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of...
At 1211 GMT on 31 July 2019, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted-off carrying the PROGRESS MS-12 cargo freighter to a precise intercept with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and was timed down to...
The Cygnus NG-11 unmanned cargo spacecraft, which is named Roger Chaffee after the astronaut killed in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, was launched into a low Earth orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) based...
