19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
... International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday 22 August, it not only marks the start of flight trials of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft and the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, but it will also carry an interesting payload onboard; a humanoid robot known...
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... NASA, after the failed docking, the Soyuz spacecraft entered an orbit above and behind the ISS, giving the spacecraft the chance to try again when it was back...
27 August 2019
Soyuz MS-14 successfully docks with ISS on second attempt
...the MIM-2 Poisk module. Flight controllers reported no issues as the spacecraft parked up, this time at the aft port on the Zvezda service... 2020. While there was no human crew onboard the spacecraft, there was one lofty figure sat in the commander's...
25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
...and SLS’s communications and data links before the rocket and spacecraft are rolled out to launch pad 39B by the end of... 100 kilometres (62 miles) above the lunar surface. The spacecraft will then use the flyby to assist in inserting itself into...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
.... In the weightless and frictionless conditions of spaceflight, the effect of this thrust can gradually build up to allow the spacecraft to achieve very high speed. Ion propulsion delivers acceleration with patience. Dawn’s low altitude mapping orbit...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... when the photon is either reflected or absorbed it can propel an object. The idea of using enormous lasers to propel a spacecraft attached to a huge ‘light sail’ (a thin, highly-reflective material such as Mylar) to sub-light speed was first...
