by David Todd | Mar 31, 2018 | International Space Station, Seradata News
On 29 March, the recently arrived astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold made a spacewalk (extra vehicular activity) for space station repair activities from the Quest airlock. Both have made spacewalks before on previous missions. The airlock was depressurised...
by David Todd | Feb 24, 2016 | International Space Station, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, space station
For all those space sales monkeys, worker monkeys, surrender monkeys, and cheeky monkeys slogging away out there, the Chinese Year of the Monkey was bad news: 2016 was also a leap year. This effectively meant that workers had an extra day’s work for no extra...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, JAXA, Russia
In a similar way to arranging a semi-amicable divorce, Russia has formally given notice to its spacefaring partner nations, NASA, ESA and JAXA, that it will remain part of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, the year that NASA itself wants to end the...
by David Todd | Aug 20, 2014 | International Space Station, Satellites
During an EVA (Extravehicular Activity)/spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) which began at 1402 GMT on 18 August 2014, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, released the Peruvian cubesat Chasqui-1 which had been earlier transported...
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Science, Seradata News, space station
On 19 June 2014, two cosmonauts, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, ventured out of the International Space Station and performed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours. After depressurisation, the spacewalkers left the airlock at 1410 GMT to begin a work schedule...
