Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war between the nations has had ramifications for launches. The most obvious ones were removals of western-built satellites from Russian Soyuz or Proton launches, either as part of retaliatory sanctions or because of...
The Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) – the first crewed mission of CST-100 Starliner, Boeing’s partially reusable spacecraft – was supposed to fly two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore (spacecraft commander) and Sunita Williams (pilot) on a week long test...
Dragon CRS-28, an unpiloted resupply craft, undocked from the space-facing (Zenith) port of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Harmony module at 1630 GMT on 29 June. It carried around 1,630 kg of scientific cargo including samples from BioNutrients-2, Monoclonal...
At 1424 GMT on 22 June 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the Poisk module hatch on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin spacewalk VKD-59. Their mission during this EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) was to retrieve several...
On 15 June 2023 at 1242 GMT Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Stephen Bowen began their spacewalk (US EVA-88), after they had opened the hatch of the Quest airlock. With Hoburg leading this EVA, their mission was to install IROSA (International...
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg began their spacewalk (US EVA-87) from the Quest airlock on 9 June at 1325 GMT. Their mission was to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power...
