19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
When Russia's space agency Roscosmos sends up some cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday 22 August, it not only marks the start of flight trials of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft ...
25 August 2019
Soyuz craft carrying Skybot F-850 fails to dock at ISS
The first mission of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft that is carrying the humanoid robot Skybot F-850 to the International Space Station has been forced to abort its docking attempt due to a rendezvous system malfunction that occurred at ...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... Starlink endeavour is not enough, as according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the entrepreneurs company SpaceX, has ...and destroy the future of astro-photography. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has already voiced its ...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
... in a spacecraft orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station when it was found in 2018. Now, according to Russian news site RIA, the company behind...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... for a new space exploration program, the US space agency has relied on Russia to transport its astronauts to the International Space Station; seats that reportedly cost $70 million each. That is set to change when SpaceX’s Crew Dragon...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... team strapped samples of different bacterial thicknesses in aluminum plate wells in exposure panels attached to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The dried Deinococcus colonies were then left for one, two and three...
