At 05:59 UTC on 23 March 2001 Russia’s Mir space station burned up as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, concluding its storied fifteen-year mission. Twenty years on, the successes and lessons learned aboard Mir live on in its successor, the International Space Station, and in the proposed next-generation space stations being developed by national agencies, international partnerships and commercial organizations around the world.
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The 19th flight of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, named They Go Up So Fast, lifted…
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Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) conducted a spacewalk to continue the process…
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Spacewalk successfully begins process of increasing Space Station’s power capacity
by Pete HardingTwo astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) conducted a spacewalk to begin the process…
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MDA into Canadarm3 development as commercial space robotic needs merge
From its first flight in November 1981, to the on-going evolution of the technology to…
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SpaceX successfully launches Starlink v1.0 L19 mission, loses first stage during landing
by Danny LentzSpaceX launched another set of 60 satellites for their Starlink internet constellation on Monday, February…
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NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover have completed their second EVA (extravehicular activity, or…
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Rocket Lab started its busiest year with the dedicated launch of a micro-satellite aboard their…
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Year in Review: Mars missions, Lunar Samples, Crew launched from the US, and Starlink
Despite a worldwide pandemic which affected agencies around the world, 2020 featured many significant achievements…
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To date, only Americans have travelled to the Moon. On Artemis 2, that will change…
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Rocket Lab has launched the 17th flight of their small satellite launcher vehicle, Electron, on…
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Northrop Grumman updates Transfer Element portion of National Team lunar lander
In an interview with NASASpaceflight, Northrop Grumman’s Sally Richardson, Program Director, Human Landing System, provided…
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When Canadarm2 was first launched to ISS onboard Shuttle Endeavour on 19 April 2001 and…
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Two days after scrubbing a previous attempt shortly before launch, and still less than a…
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From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic…
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A new Falcon booster has been installed on the test stand at SpaceX’s Rocket Development…
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Rocket Lab has announced that the kick stage used on their 14th Electron launch, “I…
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Rocket Lab Returns To Flight with Electron’s 14th mission
by Ian AtkinsonRocket Lab’s Electron smallsat launch vehicle successfully Returned To Flight with a mission nicknamed “I…
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SpaceX has launched their ninth launch of operational Starlink satellites, along with two satellites for…
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NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test…