by David Todd | Oct 28, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, space station
While nuclear war or an Ebola-like virus remain the most significant threats to the human race, along with crashing comets and asteroids of course, there could be a significant other one. Or so space-rockets-to-electric-cars billionaire, Elon Musk, has identified....
by David Todd | Oct 27, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station, SpaceX
The International Space Station said goodbye to two cargo craft in late October. Dragon CRS-4, operated as a recoverable “up and down” cargo freighter for NASA by SpaceX, was unberthed from the station by the ISS robot arm at 1202 GMT on 25 October and...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2014 | China, Russia, Seradata News, space station
China has announced that its Hainan Satellite Launch Centre, located in Wenchang, Hainan Province, in far Eastern China, is nearly complete, some five years after its construction began in September 2009. The base is needed for China’s large multi-module space...
by David Todd | Aug 12, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station, Seradata News, space station
After testing out some rendezvous instruments including a laser ranging/guidance system, the unmanned cargo spacecraft ATV 05 docked with International Space Station (ISS) at its Zvezda module at 1330 GMT on 12 August 2014. The spacecraft was the last of ESA’s...
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Science, Seradata News, space station
On 19 June 2014, two cosmonauts, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, ventured out of the International Space Station and performed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours. After depressurisation, the spacewalkers left the airlock at 1410 GMT to begin a work schedule...
by David Todd | May 30, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz, space station
Carrying NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Max Suraev of Roscosmos, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst, the Soyuz TMA-013M manned spacecraft was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle from the Baikonur...
