30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
... have a 19 hour trip to the International Space Station, where current ISS inhabitants – Commander Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts and Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner – are eagerly awaiting to throw their new...
12 February 2021
Water vapour spotted escaping from Mars' atmosphere
... hydrogen chloride—the first time that the Orbiter has detected a new gas. ExoMars is a joint ESA-Roscosmos programme comprising of two missions: the first – the Trace Gas Orbiter – launched in 2016 whereas its rover...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
.... The move allows the International Space Station team time to continue working checkouts of the newly arrived Roscosmos' Nauka module and to ensure the station will be ready for Starliner's arrival,” the US space agency said...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
... mirror the ISS, only smaller. While Russia has not ruled out an involvement with other countries, Roscosmos says it is ready to finance the project themselves, like China.
15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which has been searching for signature gases in the Martian atmosphere ...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... the Expedition 71 crew of NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko. For Boeing, the once-vaunted aerospace contractor...
