Essay: Space Blocs – the future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth
SVETLA BEN-ITZHAK, of Air University in the US, looks at how cooperation between nations in space is changing, spurred on by the conflict in Ukraine…
Space station’s first all-private astronaut team welcomed aboard orbiting platform
Reuters The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station were welcomed aboard the orbiting research platform on Saturday to begin a weeklong science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight. Their arrival came about 21 hours after the four-man team representing Houston-based startup company Axiom Space Inc lifted off […]
Ride-share return from space station on Russian Soyuz still on track – NASA
Reuters A US astronaut is still slated to share a ride back from the International Space Station with two cosmonauts aboard their Soyuz capsule later this month, despite US-Russian antagonism over the war in Ukraine, NASA officials said on Monday. Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station program, also said US-Russian cooperation aboard the […]
Essay: Destroyed Russian satellite creates yet more space debris to threaten the International Space Station
PIERRE OMALY, an expert in space debris at the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the growing issue of debris in space…
Russian anti-satellite missile test endangers space station crew – NASA
Washington DC, USReuters An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a hazard to space activities for years, US officials said. The seven-member space station crew – four US astronauts, a German astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts – were […]
Russian cosmonauts give video tour of module that jolted space station
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian cosmonauts have given a video tour of the interior of a research module which briefly threw the International Space Station out of control on Thursday a few hours after docking. Russian space officials said a software glitch and possible lapse in human attention were to blame for the mishap that caused […]
International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module – NASA
Reuters The International Space Station was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said. The seven crew members aboard – two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and […]
“SpaceX, this is Resilience”: Four astronauts begin six-month stay on space station
Washington DC, USReuters Four astronauts riding a newly-designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX greeted their new crewmates aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday after successfully docking in a landmark achievement for private space travel. In NASA’s first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately-owned spacecraft, the SpaceX Crew Dragon […]
“One heck of a ride”: SpaceX launches astronauts into space
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft. SpaceX’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule, which the crew has dubbed Resilience, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Essay: The International Space Station at 20 offers hope and a template for future cooperation
WENDY WHITMAN COBB, a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, looks at the achievements of the International Space Station – both actual and symbolic…