by David Todd | Dec 13, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Soyuz, SpaceX
In what is rapidly becoming a farcical situation within the NASA commercial crew programme, SpaceX has now admitted that its commercial crew capsule, “Crew Dragon” (aka Dragon V2), will have its first flight delayed from May 2017 until November. This flight will be...
by David Todd | Nov 21, 2016 | ESA, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
A Soyuz FG rocket launched itself and a manned Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch took place at 2020 GMT on 17 November 2016. Aboard Soyuz MS-03 were three crew: the Roskosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, the ESA...
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 Matt Wilson | Oct 19, 2016 | exploration, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
At 0805 GMT, 19 October 2016, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Site 31/6, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-02 craft containing crew members of Expedition 49/50 to the International Space Station (ISS). The new crew members are two Russian...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 20, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced on 17 September 2016, that the next flight of the Soyuz-MS crew transport craft would be delayed for technical reasons after testing conducted at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. According to TASS, the Russian state news agency,...
by David Todd | Sep 8, 2016 | International Space Station, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-20M undocked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 2151 GMT on 6 September 2016. Aboard the craft were NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka. The capsule re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and...
