Tag: ISS
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OA-8E Cygnus completes mission after 12 days of free-flight activities
The eighth Cygnus resupply mission to the orbital outpost departed ISS and completed 12 days of free flight events ahead of a destructive re-entry that occurred on Monday. Before the end of its mission, Cygnus conducted a variety of activities, including the deployment of 14 Nanoracks Cubesats as well as several experiments for Orbital ATK…
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CRS-13 Dragon arrives at Station filled with science experiments
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule for resupply mission CRS-13 has arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday for the second time in its career, bringing with it 4,861 lbs of supplies – the largest percentage of which are scientific experiments that will add to the Station’s current list of 329 active scientific investigations. CRS-13 Dragon –…
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Flight proven Falcon 9 launches previously flown Dragon to ISS
SpaceX launched a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket Friday, deploying a Dragon spacecraft on the CRS-13 resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch was conducted at the returning Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lifting off at 10:36 Eastern time (15:36 UTC). SpaceX CRS-13 Launch: The launch was the…
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Soyuz MS-05 returns crew back to Earth
The Russian Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and completed its journey back to Earth with its three crewmembers on Thursday. The vehicle undocked at 05:14 UTC ahead of landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan around 08:38 UTC. The Soyuz returned ESA’s Paolo Nespoli, Randy Bresnik of NASA and Sergei Ryazansky…
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Boeing Starliner trio preparing for test flights
Boeing is progressing through various stages of assembling the first three CST-100 Starliner spacecraft – the latter of which will launch a NASA crew on a test flight to the International Space Station (ISS). A number of major milestones are upcoming, including a Design Certification Review (DCR) for trips to the orbital outpost. Starliner: Part…
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Dream Chaser through critical landing test, prepares for orbital flights
With Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spaceplane through a successful and critical Approach and Landing Test milestone, the company is now shifting gears to focus on the all-important first orbital flight of Dream Chaser No Earlier Than 2020. That orbital flight will be part of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s fulfillment of NASA’s CRS2 Commercial Resupply Services…
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OA-8 Cygnus arrives and berths at the ISS
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship has completed its rendezvous at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday morning. Cygnus launched to orbit on Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket from Wallops on Sunday, a day later than planned due to a Range violation during the Saturday attempt, which resulted in a 24 hour delay to the cargo ship’s…
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Spacewalkers complete trio of spacewalks
Two spacewalkers completed the third in a trio of spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS) to complete vital maintenance on the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), specifically its new Latching End Effectors (LEE). After EVA-44 replaced the LEE, EVA-45 and -46 helped to lube the new hardware. Numerous other tasks were completed in…
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Spacewalkers complete trio of spacewalks
Two spacewalkers completed the third in a trio of spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS) to complete vital maintenance on the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), specifically its new Latching End Effectors (LEE). After EVA-44 replaced the LEE, EVA-45 and -46 helped to lube the new hardware. Numerous other tasks were completed in…
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Progress MS-07 docks after missing out on record rendezvous option
Roscosmos, the federal space agency of the Russian Federation, launched the Progress MS-07 craft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Saturday and docked on a Monday docking. A previous option for Progress to debut a new super fast rendezvous with the ISS – docking to the Station just 3.5 hrs after…