ISS Commander Oleg Artemyev and fellow Roscosmos Cosmonaut Denis Matveev began their six and half hour scheduled extravehicular activity (EVA) when they opened the Poisk module airlock at 1353 GMT on 17 August. However, all did not go well. The cosmonaut pair’s...
Russian cosmonaut and ISS Commander Oleg Artemyev and ESA astronaut Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti made a spacewalk together on 21 July. This was the sixth excursion outside the ISS so far this year and a rare Russian/European joint EVA (Extra Vehicular...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral launch site on the coast of Florida at 0044 GMT on 15 July 2022. It was launching the Dragon CRS-25 freighter spacecraft mission, aka SpX-25 (Dragon C208 reusable craft on its third...
An attempt to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) using a rocket engine on the attached Cygnus NG-17 (Piers Sellars) cargo freighter spacecraft failed at 1520 GMT on 20 June. The spacecraft, which had been docked at the Earth-facing port of the...
A Russian cargo freighter was successfully launched on a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 0932 GMT on 3 June. The freighter, called Progress MS-20, was put on a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous path with the International Space Station...
With vicious fighting now occurring in the Donbass region of Ukraine three months into Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s space agency and conglomerate, Roskosmos, showed no shame using its rockets to proclaim its political messaging. It has...
