Posts Tagged ‘ISS’
UK’s Major Peake delighted by historic ISS assignment
British astronaut Major Timothy Peake is to become the first British government-sponsored astronaut to fly on the International Space Station (ISS), following his assignment to a long-duration mission…
McAlister Discusses Commercial Crew Certification
In a recent presentation to the human exploration and operations committee of the NASA Advisory Counsel (NAC), Phil McAlister, Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Development discussed the next…
No return of the leak – ISS teams clear concern as false signature
The International Station Station (ISS) team have confirmed they still have an air tight cooling system on the P6 Truss Photo Voltaic Thermal Control System (PVTCS), following the…
Soyuz TMA-07M returns ISS crew to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft has returned to Earth after undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. The Russian vehicle was carrying a three person crew that…
Successful EVA likely to have resolved ammonia leak
Spacewalkers Chris Cassidy (EV-1) and Tom Marshburn (EV-2) ventured outside of the Quest Airlock on Saturday, in search of the source of an ammonia leak. The duo investigated…
Ammonia leak on ISS prompts contingency spacewalks
A sudden increase in a previously small ammonia leak in the coolant lines of a power channel on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) has prompted…
Cygnus ISS debut provisionally moved to September
The debut mission for Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft – known as ORB-D – is now tracking a provisional launch date of September 28. The slip relates to an engine…
NASA’s Commercial Crew Catch 22 as another $424m heads to Russia
NASA administrator Charlie Bolden emphasized the need for Congress to fully support funding for the Agency’s Commercial Crew Program, after signing a $424m extension for the use of…
Europe’s ATV-4 prepares for launch amid contributions to future exploration
Europe’s latest space freighter, the Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4), is currently undergoing preparations for a realigned launch date following the replacement of a faulty unit inside the spacecraft….
Progress M-19M docks with ISS despite antenna issue
The Russian Progress resupply vehicle that launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) two days later, despite some…
Cosmonauts successfully conclude Russian spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts have been hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, conducting a spacewalk for the purposes of routine maintenance on the Russian…
Sochi Winter Olympics torch relay to include ISS spacewalk
In what will be a truly unique event, the Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games will ride up to the International Space Station on Soyuz TMA-11M in…
ISS gets communications overhaul to boost scientific output
The International Space Station (ISS) has been undergoing an extensive internal communications hardware overhaul over the past week, designed to greatly boost the orbiting laboratory’s capacity for transmitting…
USCV-1: NASA planners slip first ISS commercial crew mission to late 2017
The first NASA crew to ride to the International Space Station on a commercial spacecraft may have to wait until at least the end of 2017, after NASA’s…
Soyuz TMA-08M docks with ISS just six hours after launch
The Russian Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 34S, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:43 PM GMT, carrying three new crewmembers…
Dragon Splashdown concludes SpaceX’s CRS-2 mission
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, following its departure from the International Space Station (ISS). Known as End Of Mission (EOM)…
CRS-2 Dragon homecoming delayed due to high seas in the splashdown zone
The planned unberthing and return of SpaceX’s CRS-2 Dragon (SpX-2) was delayed by one day due to the forecast of high seas in the splashdown zone. Dragon was scheduled to…
Soyuz TMA-06M safely returns crew to Earth
The Russian Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft – carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut – has successfully landed in Kazakhstan early on Saturday, wrapping up a 4.5 month expedition…
SSRMS removes payload from Dragon trunk to mark new milestone
SpaceX’s CRS-2 (SpX-2) Dragon achieved another milestone on Wednesday, as the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) carefully removed a pair of grapple bars from the spacecraft’s trunk….
Resilient CRS-2 Dragon successfully berthed on the ISS
Back to full health, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was captured and then berthed by the Canadarm 2 on the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday morning. Arriving just one day…
