Under a veil of secrecy, Shenzhou 15 taikonauts Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu exited the Chinese Experiment Module I (Wentian/CSS) of the Chinese Space Station for their second extravehicular activity (EVA) sometime between 28 February and 1 March 2023. The first...
The uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was successfully launched onboard a Soyuz 2-1A from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 0024 GMT on 24 February 2023. Soyuz MS-23, a replacement for the coolant-leak damaged Soyuz MS-22, is expected to...
On 2 February 2023, after the Quest airlock was depressurised, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata opened the hatch at 1245 GMT, 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Their mission objective was to complete the construction of a mounting platform on...
While action film actor Tom Cruise has his detractors, you cannot say he is not successful. Recently starring in the Top Gun – Maverick, the long awaited successor to the Top Gun (1986) film that originally made him a major star, he is credited with bringing...
On 20 January 2023 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann opened the Quest airlock hatch at 1312 GMT. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power to begin their spacewalk at 1314 GMT. Their objective was to install another...
Events on the International Space Station have been more muted after the excitement of the Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak. On 6 January three cubesats were released. SURYASAT-1, OPTIMAL-1 and HSKSAT-1 which were carried on the J-SSOD #24 deployer and was extracted from the...