“An agreement was reached on continuing the cross-flight until 2025,” Roscosmos said in a press release. It said the decision was taken “solely to maintain the reliability of the ISS”. Its purpose is to “guarantee the presence of at least one representative of Roscosmos on the Russian segment and at least one representative of NASA […]
Jing, Zhu and Gui traveled to China’s Tiangong space station in late May and remained in orbit for 154 days. He spent time conducting scientific experiments and conducted about eight hours of spacewalk. A new crew replaced them after the Shenzhou-17 mission lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in the country’s northwest last week. […]
Yuri Borisov, the head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, supported Putin’s position as a means of maintaining the country’s capabilities in manned space flight. “The ISS is aging and will be retired around 2030,” Russian agencies told reporters. “If we do not start large-scale work on creating a Russian orbital station in 2024, it […]
So as a precaution, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, returned the ship to Earth. It sent another, empty one – which meant there would be room for Rubio and company to return, but they would have to pick up the mission assigned to the crew that was originally supposed to be on that other ship. […]
O’Hara praised the station’s “legacy” and said it was bringing countries closer together. “I’m excited to board the ship and see the crewmates who are waiting for us,” he said. Kononenko, 59, and Chubb, 39, were to spend a year on the ISS, while O’Hara, 40, was to spend six months there. This was the […]
It is also believed that a separate leak earlier this month was caused by an external impact on the cargo ship’s cooling system Pragati MS-21, which was removed by the authorities last week. Both leaks have caused headaches for Roscosmos and NASA, resulting in them rearranging their schedules and postponing planned space walks. “Space missions […]
Francois Forget, an astrophysicist at France’s CNRS scientific research center, said that “this new impetus for cooperation is linked to the fact that this time the US has a joint project with Europe: Mars sample return.” The mission, planned for around 2030, aims to return to Earth samples collected from Mars by both ExoMars and […]
If a thermal analysis – which assesses how hot it will be inside the cabin – concludes the MS-22 is unsuitable for crewed flight, a scheduled launch of another Soyuz capsule in mid-March from the Baikonur Cosmodrome The top can be carried, and it will be launched without a crew, he said. “They’re looking at […]
14 leak prompted mission controllers in Moscow to call off the spacewalk as a live NASA webcast showed a flurry of snowflake-like particles erupting from behind the Soyuz spacecraft. The leak lasted for hours and emptied the radiator of the coolant used to control the temperature inside the spacecraft’s crew compartment. NASA has said that […]
NASA later said that the crew on the station “completed normal operations on Thursday, including … configuring instruments ahead of a planned US spacewalk on Monday.” Soyuz MS-22 flew Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to the ISS in September. They are scheduled to return to Earth in March […]