... airline pilot, will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space. During his time on the ISS, Pesquet will perform around 50 scientific experiments for ESA and France’s space agency CNES under a mission...
... Ltd. (SSTL) with contributions from across Europe, the RemoveDebris spacecraft will be deployed by astronauts from the ISS to test four orbital debris technologies using a pair of target CubeSats. The first experiment will use a net...
SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9’s launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts ...
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough ...
... solve the following two major technical issues requiring a certain amount of investment: Launch capacity gap The ISS orbit is circular at about 400 km with an inclination of 51.6 degrees compared to the CSS’s planned 42-43 degrees, 300-350 km orbit...
... Space (as a business entity of Sierra Nevada Corp) is contracted to NASA for resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) using its expendable Shooting Star cargo capsules. The company has also delivered its prototype of an inflatable...