24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
... the day, completed around 3.30 p.m PDT (22.30 GMT) the spacecraft had finished one orbit in solar sailing mode, and all of... of its expected orientation—a promising early sign the spacecraft is tracking the Sun properly,” The Planetary Society shared...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...programme was secretly terminated. The Soviet lunar lander spacecraft was never fully tested in action. Prototype versions,...the cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit ...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
... the flight control team have become more comfortable operating this new and sophisticated spacecraft,” says Peter Schmitz, ESA’s Spacecraft Operations Manager. With its sophisticated sensors, the Trace Gas Orbiter is designed to measure the...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
A Russian cosmonaut, actress, and film producer are heading to the International Space Station 5 October on board a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, for a 12 day stay to film segments for a movie. Making his fourth flight into space, veteran Roscosmos ...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
.... This is SpaceX’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations. Crew Dragon Endeavour will return...
06 July 2016
The next trio of intrepid explorers head to the ISS
...the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS, the trio will test a variety of upgraded systems on their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft before docking to the space station’s Rassvet module on Saturday, July 9th. A number of modifications have been applied...
