Tag: Canada
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Newly installed space station robot arm grapple fixture not operating properly
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The grapple mechanism installed on one end of the space station’s robot arm during a spacewalk Tuesday is experiencing problems with one of two control channels. Rather that use the fixture without redundancy, it will be removed during a re-planned spacewalk Monday and the original fitting will be…
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Spacewalkers complete repairs to station robotic arm
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) after the end of EVA. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo from a spacewalk last year repairing the space station’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Tuesday and replaced one of the grapple fixtures on the…
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Testbed for Canadian data relay network successfully launched from China
A Long March 11 rocket lifted off at 0412 GMT Friday (11:12 p.m. EST Thursday) with a pathfinder satellite for Kepler Communications and five Chinese payloads. Credit: Kepler Communications A nanosatellite built in Scotland for Kepler Communications, a Toronto company planning a 140-satellite global data relay network, rode to orbit Friday with five Chinese satellites…
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Guidance error reportedly led to Russian launch failure
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Dec. 1 with news that Soyuz rocket launches will be permitted to continue as scheduled. Multiple replays of Tuesday’s launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Liftoff occurred at 0541 GMT (12:41 a.m. EST; 2:41 p.m. local time at Vostochny). Russian officials could complete their investigation of a…
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Russian weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads lost after rocket failure
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Tuesday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A new Russian weather observatory and the first prototype for Telesat’s planned network of 100-plus broadband communications satellites in low Earth orbit were among 19 spacecraft lost after a Fregat rocket stage ran into trouble soon after liftoff aboard…
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Soyuz rocket set for launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is set for launch at 0541:46 GMT (12:41:46 a.m. EST) Tuesday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to lift off Tuesday from a launch pad in Russia’s Far East with a new Russian weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads from companies and institutions…
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Spacewalk concludes with successful robot arm repair
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei worked on the space station’s robotic arm during a spacewalk Thursday. Credit: NASA Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station early Thursday and performed what amounted to hand transplant surgery on the lab’s Canadian-built robot arm, removing a crippled grapple…
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Station astronauts prep for spacewalk to repair robotic arm
Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei are pictured inside their spacesuits during a recent rehearsal for Thursday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei plan to head outside the International Space Station Thursday on a spacewalk to replace one end of the lab’s Canadian-built robotic arm, a changeout that engineers say…
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Canada’s MDA buys DigitalGlobe, reveals next-generation WorldView satellite fleet
Artist’s concept of the WorldView 4 satellite launched by DigitalGlobe in November. Credit: DigitalGlobe The acquisition of DigitalGlobe, the owner of several commercial Earth-viewing spacecraft in orbit, by Canada’s MDA Corp. will combine two of the world’s leading radar and optical observation imaging systems into one globe-spanning network and give Space Systems/Loral a firmer foothold…
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India declares success on PSLV’s most complex mission
The PSLV lifted off at 0342 GMT Monday (11:42 p.m. EDT Sunday). Credit: ISRO Eight satellites blasted off Monday on top of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, including an instrument to track tropical cyclones, a pathfinder for a U.S.-owned commercial Earth observation fleet, and multiple spacecraft for Algeria. The 14-story launcher lifted off at…