On Aug. 29, 2018 a small hole was discovered on the International Space Station. This resulted in a pressure leak. The hole has been identified and fixed by space station crew. Russian media recently reported that General Director Rogozin said the hole was not a manufacturing defect. Ruling out a manufacturing defect indicates that this…
Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been deliberate sabotage. UPDATE The special commission formed by the Russian Energia Rocket and Space Corporation qualifies the incident involving the hole in the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the Space Station as “deliberate actions of…
Pressure sensors detected a depressurization in the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday night. The crew had to search for a leak, which was eventually traced to the Russian space capsule docked with the station. The leak was found in the Soyuz craft, which is docked with the ISS, reported Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin.…
Launch of a three-person crew aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:12:39 UTC.
ESA’s space debris team provided their final estimate for reentry, forecasting a window of about four hours between 23:00 UTC on 1 April to 03:00 UTC on 2 April. Tiangong-1 was launched 30 September 2011. The space station hosted one uncrewed and 2 crewed missions during it’s life. A controlled descent was first planned at…
UPDATE: The latest prediction from the ESA is that Tiangong-1 will now return to earth between the night of 31 March and the evening of 1 April. The forecast is due to a change of space weather resulting in less solar particles interacting with the atmosphere. The re-entry dates have been continuously revised but are…
The latest estimate from the European Space Agency (ESA) is that Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will re-enter earth’s atmosphere between 29 March and 9 April. The uncontrolled descent will see the 10.4m (34 feet) long station re-enter somewhere between 43°N and 43°S, as illustrated in the ESA map below. Due to the type of orbit…
Live view of Starman in his Tesla Roaster Live launch Ahead of the launch of the Falcon Heavy,SpaceX revealed an animation for the upcoming blast-off. An updated version of the computer-generated Space X launch released years ago, but this time, the new video shows Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster sitting in the spacecraft and detaching to enter Mars’ orbit. Because of…
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity last week completed its seventh flight over the Mojave Desert, the first since last summer. The flight was designed to validate work completed during recent months of downtime, including transonic flight performance, stability and control to ensure the vehicle is ready for the higher loads and forces of powered test flight.…
NASA’s 13-year mission exploring Saturn and its moons will come to an end as the spacecraft deliberately dives into Saturn’s atmosphere and plunges itself into the planet. Even then, Cassini will transmit new data about the planet’s composition as long as its antenna remains pointed toward Earth, with the assist from small thrusters. No spacecraft…
