Launching at 1400 GMT, on 2 November 2019, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, a top off an Antares 230+ rocket was the Cygnus NG-12 mission. Cygnus NG-12 is a commercial resupply mission to the ISS (International Space Station) contracted to...
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of...
At 1211 GMT on 31 July 2019, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted-off carrying the PROGRESS MS-12 cargo freighter to a precise intercept with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and was timed down to...
The Cygnus NG-11 unmanned cargo spacecraft, which is named Roger Chaffee after the astronaut killed in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, was launched into a low Earth orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) based...
In a new extra vehicular activity (EVA) session on 8 April, more colloquially known as a spacewalk, two astronauts had to change a recently fitted battery on the International Space Station (ISS) which was proving defective. The Lithium Ion battery which had been...
A Progress 2.1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1101 GMT on 4 April. Aboard was the Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft which followed a “very fast” approach set of manoeuvres ahead of its docking with the...
