Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev began a spacewalk from the Poisk airlock on the International Space Station on 18 April 2022. The airlock was depressurized at 1433 GMT and the hatch was opened at 1501...
NASA has upped the number of cargo missions as part of its CRS-2 contract originally signed in 2016, from 20 to 32 with all to take place before 2026. The 12 extra flights have gone to Northrop Grumman (six on the Antares-launched Cygnus) and SpaceX (six on the Falcon...
On 23 March, the International Space Station (ISS) Quest airlock was depressurised and Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Raja Chari, of NASA, and Matthias Maurer, of ESA, opened the hatch at 1232 GMT to begin a spacewalk (US EVA-80) to make modifications to the radiator...
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1555 GMT on 18 March. The craft was carrying the Soyuz MS-21 craft with a crew of Cosmonaut’s Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov and WAS...
On 15 March 2022 NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari opened the hatch at 1212 GMT to begin their spacewalk (US EVA-79). This mission was to install a “mod kit” on power channel 3A’s Mast Canister Assembly (MCA) located on the Starboard-4 (S4) Truss and to...
While the main effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have already become apparent, most noticeably by the cancellation of the Soyuz launches of OneWeb satellites and probably Galileo as well, and the engine/stage supply issues affecting rockets such as Antares...
