Tag: ISS
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EVA-49 – spacewalkers complete ISS upgrading tasks
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold have conducted a spacewalk on Thursday, tasked with the installation of wireless communications equipment, swap out high-definition video cameras on the port truss of the station’s backbone and remove aging hoses from a cooling component on the station’s truss. EVA-49 was set to begin at 8:10…
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Soyuz MS-08 mission, first crew launch of 2018, docks with ISS
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, conducted the world’s first crew launch of 2018 this week ahead of a successful docking. The mission utilized the veteran Soyuz-FG rocket, atop which three crew members, two Americans and one Russian, departed for the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
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Soyuz MS-06 returns three ISS crew members to Earth
Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) in their Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft. The trio landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan around 02:31 UTC. During their 168 days in space, they were part of the first expedition…
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Spacewalkers complete spacewalk robotic maintenance with EVA-48
The final EVA to complete an upgrade to the Space Station’s robotic arm’s end effector has been completed. EVA-48 was conducted by Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. This EVA was originally delayed after the previous spacewalk, EVA-47, included a software issue that…
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Progress MS-08 docks with ISS
The Russian Progress resupply ship MS-08 has docked with the International Space Station, two days after launching on a Soyuz 2-1A rocket. Docking was marked at 10:38 UTC. The original launch was to result in docking at the International Space Station (ISS) just 3.5 hours later on Tuesday. However, it was scrubbed with just seconds…
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NASA provides Dream Chaser with Authority To Proceed for maiden ISS mission
NASA has provided the milestone of “Authority to Proceed” to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) for the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s first NASA mission to the International Space Station. The launch atop an Atlas V to the orbital outpost has been provided with a window late in 2020. The cargo version of Dream Chaser is working under NASA’s…
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Russian spacewalk breaks endurance record via new antenna system installation
Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin have – during Russian EVA-44 – installed a new high gain antenna electronics box on the rear of the Zvezda service module. The duo left the Pirs model at 15:34 UTC for a spacewalk that was expected to last six and a half hours. However, this lasted over eight hours…
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SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon returns home
SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon unberthed from the ISS ahead of a return to a Pacific Ocean splashdown on Saturday, concluding the spacecraft’s latest resupply mission. Dragon returned with 4,100 pounds of cargo, highlighting her unique downmass capability for NASA. Splashdown occurred around 10:36 Eastern Time (07:36 local time on the West Coast). Dragon has enjoyed yet…
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Atlas V flies through DCR ahead of Starliner debut
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed the Design Certification Review (DCR) for the Atlas V upcoming role in launching Starliner spacecraft later this year. Starliner is set to conduct a maiden flight into space during an uncrewed test flight (Orbital Flight Test – OFT-1) as early as August. Part of the tag team effort with SpaceX’s…
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Soyuz MS-07 docks with ISS following final human launch of 2017
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, launched the final human mission of 2017. Three new members for the International Space Station – Anton Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle, and Norishige Kanai – launched aboard the Soyuz MS-07 vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 02:21 EST (07:21 GMT) on Sunday, 17 December – ahead of completing…