Following undocking from the ISS at 0757 GMT, 4 October 2018, the Soyuz MS-08 craft, carrying Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA Astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, began its circa two and a half hour de-orbit procedure, followed by a final de-orbit burn at 1051...
In a bit of a public relations offensive by Russia (thankfully no chemical warfare is involved in this campaign) the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has publicised the FIFA World Cup in Russia, by having two Cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev, practice...
While President Trump has formally decided that landing humans back on the Moon should get priority over a longer term Mars landing ambition, it maybe that no past moonwalker will be around by the time the next moonwalk happens. For the world has sadly lost another...
Those fearful of the miniscule risk of being hit by space debris from the re-entering Tiangong-1 had nothing to fear.The uncontrolled re-entry of the Chinese mini-space station occurred at 0016 GMT on 2 April 2018 over the South Pacific. Re-entry experts have put the...
While other analysts have suggested it will last in orbit until April, Seradata’s analysis is that Chinese mini-space station Tiangong 1 is likely to re-enter with debris hitting Earth probably within a week. The space station’s current perigee (low point...
Following the detachment of the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the ISS (International Space Station), at 2308 GMT on 27 February, the spacecraft carrying the three space-farers carried out a standard 3.5 hour return trip to Earth. Following separation of the OM (Orbital...
