Tag: ISS Cargo

  • Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station. The kerosene-fueled launcher was counting down to takeoff at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT) Sunday to kick off the Dragon supply ship’s two-day…

  • Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule’s Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check. The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its…

  • Russia updates launch schedule for ISS crews, cargo

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    Updated at 11 p.m. EDT NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui will launch to the International Space Station in late July. Credit: NASA/GCTC The next three-person crew will launch to the International Space Station sometime between July 23 and July 25 after a two-month delay triggered by…

  • Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket

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    Russian technicians work on the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and Progress M-27M spacecraft before their doomed April 28 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia Russia says a design bug from the pairing of a Progress spacecraft with an upgraded version of the venerable Soyuz launcher led to the loss of…

  • RD-181 engines prepared for shipment to U.S.

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    File photo of an Antares rocket on the launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky The first pair of RD-181 rocket engines set to launch on Orbital ATK’s redesigned Antares rocket are in the final stages of acceptance testing in Russia ahead of their export to the United States in early July, officials…

  • Space station module moved to clear path for cargo ships

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    Ground controllers powered up the International Space Station’s robotic arm and repositioned a storage module Wednesday to give visiting cargo delivery vehicles a second parking port at the complex. The reconfiguration is another step in preparing the space station to receive commercial crew vehicles owned by Boeing and SpaceX. When the changes are complete later…

  • Stricken space freighter re-enters atmosphere

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    File photo of a Russian Progress supply ship. Credit: NASA A Russian Progress cargo craft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean early Friday after spinning out of control following liftoff April 28 with supplies for the International Space Station. The out-of-control spacecraft fell back to Earth around 0220 GMT Friday (10:20 p.m. EDT…

  • Out-of-control Progress cargo craft to fall back to Earth

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    Updated at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) on May 7. File photo of a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft. Credit: NASA A Russian space freighter that failed to deliver supplies to the International Space Station last week is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Thursday. The Progress M-27M cargo capsule spun out of control…

  • Progress failure probe narrows in on separation from rocket

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    File photo of a Russian Progress supply ship during rendezvous with the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Something went wrong with a Russian Progress resupply mission moments before the spacecraft deployed into orbit Tuesday on the way to the International Space Station, and investigators are analyzing whether the stricken supply ship may have lost control…