On the ISS, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin boarded Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 8 (Endeavour) on 2 May. They undocked from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module (IDA-2) on the...
The Artemis Accords are a set of guidelines for “responsible behaviour in space” drafted by NASA and the US Department of State. As implied by its name, the Accords are specifically about NASA’s Artemis programme: the US effort to return people – including the first...
A pair of major launches, that took place just days apart in April, illustrate how far Russia has lost its way from the days when it was at the forefront of rocket launch technology. The first, from the US, was a swansong: the Delta IV Heavy’s last flight. The other,...
A Russian military satellite of unknown nature was launched into orbit by a launch of a Soyuz 2-1v small launch vehicle at 0703 GMT on 27 December from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The exact nature of the satellite has not yet been disclosed. A single...
A Soyuz 2-1b rocket was launched from a snow-covered Plesetsk, Northern Russia, USA on 0848 GMT on 21 December 2023. The satellite carried was military in nature. It is thought to be a Bars-M cartography satellite. The satellite codenamed Cosmos 2574 (Kosmos-2574)...
While the Soviet Union became famous during the 1960s and 1970s for running space event tracking ships, it also had ground based deep space communications facilities. One of these, along with its dish array, is located in Vitino, in the Saky district of...
