28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... a T-shaped structure that can house a total of six astronauts on stays of up to six months. China is aiming to have its space station fully operational by next year and its expected lifetime is around 15 years, the programme’s planners have said...
08 December 2017
Asgardia leaves International Space Station and commences independent orbit
... November from the Wallops flight facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station. Asgardia-1 deployed early today after Cygnus de-docked from the ISS on 6 December and moved to a higher altitude...
19 February 2021
China's astronauts begin training for space station missions
Chinese astronauts have started receiving intensive training for spaceflights tasked with building the nation's space station, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Tuesday. Several astronauts have spent the past year in hard training and...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
..., 56, Liu Boming, 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, are to work and stay on Tianhe, the living quarters of the future space station, for three months. Haisheng, the mission's commander, is a decorated air force pilot in the People's Liberation Army...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... that it has plans to construct its own "very small" space station in the next decade. "Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan told reporters in New...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
... and leadership in low-Earth orbit.” The firm, who started off in business as a payload provider to the International Space Station (ISS), say Starlab will be able to host a continuous crew of up to four astronauts, who will live and work...
