In a new extra vehicular activity (EVA) session on 8 April, more colloquially known as a spacewalk, two astronauts had to change a recently fitted battery on the International Space Station (ISS) which was proving defective. The Lithium Ion battery which had been...
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...
It was return time for the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft which originally arrived and docked at the International Space Station on 16 December 2018. Having been unberthed from Harmony Nadir Port, the ISS robot arm released the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft at 2333 GMT on 13...
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
Following a two-day delay the first Cygnus freighter, Cygnus NG-10, was launched on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) at 0901 GMT on 17 November 2018. The Cygnus was launched by another now Northrop product, an Antares 230 rocket – powered by two...
At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
