Russian space agency Roscosmos has released its preliminary report about the crash of Luna 25 onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 25, having achieved lunar orbit, was executing a manoeuvre on 19 August to lower this to an elliptical 110 x 16 km “pre-landing orbit” in...
With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
Soyuz MS-24 was launched via a Soyuz 2-1a rocket into orbit at 1544 GMT on 15 September 2023 from Baikonur near Tyuryatam. The launch was a crewed flight to the International Space Station. Onboard Soyuz MS-24 is Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight...
The effects of Russia’s war with Ukraine are being felt in unexpected places. Elon Musk, CEO and Founder of SpaceX, has taken a hand in the progress of the war – and been strongly criticised for doing so. Meanwhile, Russia is running out of munitions and is allegedly...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (just next door to Cape Canaveral), in Florida, USA,at 0727 GMT on 26 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying the a Crew Dragon (Endurance) spacecraft on the...
India has become the first nation ever to land a spacecraft near the South Pole of the Moon, as well as only the fourth nation in the world to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China. After a 19-minute descent from...
