Tag: International Space Station
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Russian resupply launch aborted, curbing express trip to station
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodome in Kazakhstan after an aborted countdown Thursday. Credit: TsENKI TV/Roscosmos The launch of a Soyuz rocket with a Progress refueling and resupply freighter was aborted seconds before liftoff Thursday in a rare scrub for Russia’s workhorse rocket, delaying the start of a journey to…
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Astronauts stage second spacewalk in five days
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Randy Bresnik seen in an image from a camera installed Tuesday by spacewalkers outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Five days after work to replace the grapple fitting on one end of the space station’s robot arm, commander Randy Bresnik and flight engineer Mark…
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Wallops launch base receives final hardware delivery for next Cygnus mission
The Cygnus spacecraft’s service module was packed up at Orbital ATK’s facility in Dulles, Virginia, before shipment to its launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore last week. Credit: Orbital ATK Orbital ATK shipped the final major piece of hardware for the next Cygnus space station resupply mission to a launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…
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Russian Progress supply ship poised for swift trip to space station
Russian ground crews are readying a robotic Progress cargo freighter for launch Thursday on an expedited trek to the International Space Station that should take less than three-and-a-half hours from liftoff to docking, cutting in half the normal transit time. The Progress MS-07 supply ship is loaded with several tons of food, spare parts, fuel,…
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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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One small teraflop: HPE’s supercomputer takes a giant leap on the space station
HPE’s Spaceborne Computer is installed on the International Space Station. (HPE Photo) The most powerful computer ever sent into space proved its mettle this month by registering a processing speed in excess of a trillion floating-point calculations per second, a measure that’s known as a teraflop. “HPE’s Spaceborne Computer is the first high-performance commercial off-the-shelf…
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Dragon capsule splashes down in Pacific with space station cargo
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule departed the space station early Sunday. This view of Dragon was captured by a camera on the station’s Canadian-built robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Returning home from more than a month in orbit, a SpaceX Dragon supply ship departed the International Space Station and parachuted into the Pacific Ocean on…
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SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashes down with a crew of mouse-tronauts
SpaceX’s robotic Dragon cargo capsule backs away from the International Space Station after its release by the station’s robotic arm. (NASA TV) SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule was set loose from the International Space Station today and returned to Earth with more than 3,800 pounds of cargo and experiments, including a set of live mice that…
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Soyuz docks with space station, adding three to lab’s crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Lighting up the pre-dawn sky, a Soyuz rocket roared to life and streaked into orbit Tuesday carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, boosting the lab’s crew back to six and the U.S. complement to four NASA-sponsored astronauts. The…