by David Todd | Feb 12, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Satellites
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been “unberthed” from the Unity module using the International Space Station’s robot arm, it was released at 1616...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | International Space Station, Seradata News, space station, SpaceX
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...
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
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...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 19, 2018 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
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...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 8, 2018 | Russia, Seradata News, space station
Following undocking from the ISS at 0757 GMT, 4 October 2018, the Soyuz MS-08 craft, carrying Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA Astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, began its circa two and a half hour de-orbit procedure, followed by a final de-orbit burn at 1051...
