At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
The 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018) was held in the city of Bremen near the coast of Northern Germany. The Congress is both a technical symposium, where engineers, scientists and even lawyers present their papers, and a place where the great space...
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...
