by David Todd | Oct 31, 2016 | International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft undocked from the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0035 GMT on 30 October 2016 carrying Russian astronaut Anatoly Ivanishin, US astronaut Kate Rubins and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. The spacecraft made a...
by David Todd | Oct 5, 2016 | ESA, History, India, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Technology
IAC 2016 Guadalaraja: Mars missions and new rockets feature… and so does the rain The annual meeting of the World’s space agencies, engineers and scientists at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Guadalajara, Mexico, during late September...
by David Todd | Jul 8, 2016 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 0136 GMT on 8 July 2016 the maiden launch of the new MS (Modernized Systems) variant of the Soyuz manned spacecraft was performed by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. On board the Soyuz MS-01 craft was a...
by David Todd | Apr 19, 2016 | JAXA, Satellites, Science
The cause of the spin that led to the demise of the Japanese Astro H (Hitomi) space observatory, on 26 March 2016, has been described by JAXA. In fact there were two spins and two causes: an incorrect measurement of rotation and a subsequent firing by incorrectly set...
by David Todd | Mar 29, 2016 | JAXA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
All communications were lost with the Japanese Astro-H (Hitomi) astronomy spacecraft after a suspected structural failure event on 27 March 2016 after it fell into a spin. US Strategic Command detected debris coming off the spacecraft at 0142 GMT and there was a...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2016 | JAXA, Launches, Satellites, Science
An H-2A202 launch from Tanegashima in Japan took place at 0845 on 17 February 2016. Aboard the flight to orbit were four satellites. The main payload was the Japanese ASTRO-H aka Hitomi spacecraft. This 2700kg astronomical spacecraft, which has been launched for...
