SpaceX launches eighth long-duration crew for International Space Station orbit
Cape Canaveral, Florida, US Reuters A SpaceX rocket safely lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew […]
Russia pinpoints cause of Moon shot failure, looks to bring next missions forward
Moscow, RussiaReuters Russia on Tuesday blamed a malfunction in an on-board control unit for causing its lunar lander to crash into the Moon in August, and said it was looking at speeding up the timetable for two further missions. Russia’s first moon mission for 47 years ended in failure on 19th August with the crash […]
Russia’s Moon craft starts processing first data – space agency
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the Moon in a bid to be first to find ice on the Earth’s only natural satellite. The Russian Luna-25 mission, the first since 1976, is racing […]
Russia to evacuate village for first lunar lander mission in half century
Reuters Russia will evacuate a village in its far east on 11th August as part of the launch of Russia’s first lunar lander mission in nearly half a century, a local official said on Monday. General view of the launch pad after a Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites took off […]
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docks at ISS to bring back stranded crew
Reuters A Russian spacecraft on a mission to bring back to Earth a crew stranded on the International Space Station has docked at the station, Russian space agency Roscosmos said early on Sunday. The Soyuz MS-23, which lifted off from Baikonour space centre in Kazakhstan on Friday, is to bring back Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev […]
Russia to rescue ISS crew on backup rocket after capsule leak
Reuters Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a US astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month. The leak came from a tiny puncture – less than one millimetre wide – […]
Micrometeoroid strike could be cause of Russian spacecraft leak – official
Reuters A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike, a senior Russian space official said Thursday. NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said no astronauts were endangered by the leak, which […]
Russia calls ageing space station “dangerous” as it plans successor
Reuters The International Space Station is dangerous and unfit for purpose, Russia’s space chief said on Thursday, as Moscow pushes ahead with plans to quit the project and launch its own station. Yuri Borisov, head of the Roscosmos agency, said mass equipment failures and ageing parts were endangering crew safety on the 24-year-old station. The […]
Space politics: NASA game planned contingencies for space station as Russian alliance continued-sources
JOEY ROULETTE, of Reuters, reports on how contingency plans have been drawn up amid escalating tensions between the US and Russia…
Russia tells NASA space station pullout less imminent than indicated earlier
Washington DC, USReuters Russian space officials have informed their US counterparts that Moscow would like to keep flying its cosmonauts on the International Space Station at least until their own orbital outpost is built, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday. Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA […]