by David Todd | Jan 9, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, International Space Station, Personal spaceflight, Space Shuttle, space station
While the International Space Station was originally set to retire in 2015, a retirement which was then deferred to 2020, NASA has just got permission from the Obama Administration to agree with its other national/pan-national users including Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, space station
There were three EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) sessions conducted by pairs of spacewalking astronauts and cosmonauts during the Christmas period. The first was made on 21 December after NASA deemed that the previously discovered coolant loop fault would need...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2013 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, space station
NASA reported that on 11 December, the pump module on one of the International Space Station’s (ISS) two external cooling loops automatically shut down when it reached pre-set (lower) temperature limits. These loops circulate ammonia outside the station to keep both...
by David Todd | Dec 2, 2013 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, space station
Following its Soyuz-U launch on 25 November, the unmanned PROGRESS M-021M cargo/freighter spacecraft was approaching the International Space Station (ISS) on 30 November 2013 via an automated approach when its new Kurs-NA system apparently failed and the craft fell...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station
An unmanned Russian Progress M-021M (ISS-53P) cargo spacecraft/freighter has been launched into orbit on a Soyuz U launch vehicle on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place at 2053 GMT on 25 November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The manned Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and US NASA astronaut, Karen Nyberg and an Olympic torch safely back to Earth, touching down using parachutes and braking rockets at 0249 GMT on 11...
