06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
... I'm still dreaming." They docked at the ISS, behind schedule at 12:22 GMT, after veteran cosmonaut and captain of their spacecraft, Anton Shkaplerov, switched to manual control. As the hatches opened, the Russian trio floated into the orbital...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...larger than a kilometre in diameter. By the end of this century, we will probably only visit a handful with larger spacecraft like NEAR Shoemaker, or Japan’s Hayabusa. But nanosats could be sent in large numbers to examine hundreds of asteroids close...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
... altogether, it was feeding incorrect information into the guidance and control computer.” This data made the spacecraft believe it was spinning while it was not. As it attempted to correct that spin by firing thrusters, it had begun to actually...
29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
Once the Easter egg hunt is over, if you need something else to search for then perhaps avert your eyes to the skies, as China’s retired Tiangong-1 space lab could soon light up the skies as it plummets towards Earth in a (possible) fiery ...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
The prospect of heading to Mars by 2033 has suffered a setback, as an independent report which US Congress directed NASA to conduct in the 2017 NASA authorisation act, suggests that a Mars orbital mission could be carried out no earlier than 2037, ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
NASA officials deviated from US law when they decided to track only some of the costs of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. They later masked the troubled programme’s cost overrun, which would have triggered more oversight by now, with an ...
