News Archive / Tagged: International Space Station

• CRS-17 Dragon arrives at ISS with cargo, stray cable

  Derek RichardsonMay 6th, 2019

  SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon arrived at the International Space Station with fresh supplies and an unexpected cable that was supposed to fall away during launch.

• Gallery: CRS-17 launch brightens Space Coast skies

  Derek RichardsonMay 4th, 2019

  SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-17 Dragon spacecraft perched atop it in the company’s fifth flight of 2019.

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 4, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 4th, 2019

  In this week’s Space Bulletin, a bunch of rockets launched, including a Long March 4B from China and a Falcon 9 with a Dragon bound for the space station.

• Space station power problem delays CRS-17 Dragon launch

  Derek RichardsonApril 30th, 2019

  An issue with the International Space Station's power grid is prompting mission managers to delay the launch of the CRS-17 Dragon resupply mission.

• Dragon to send science, supplies to ISS in early-morning launch

  Joe LatrellApril 29th, 2019

  SpaceX is set for another cargo Dragon flight to the International Space Station, sending food, supplies and experiments slated for Expeditions 59 and 60.

• SpaceX targeting May 1 for next cargo Dragon launch

  Derek RichardsonApril 27th, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Following a successful static test fire of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX is eyeing the beginning of May for its next cargo mission to the International Space Station.

• Progress continues on Dream Chaser space plane

  Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2019

  Having recently completed a major NASA milestone, Sierra Nevada Corporation is well into construction of the cargo variant of its Dream Chaser space plane.

• NASA astronaut assigned record-setting mission

  Derek RichardsonApril 23rd, 2019

  Having been aboard the International Space Station for about a month, NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set for an extended stay of about 11 months.

• NG-11 Cygnus begins 3-month ISS stay

  Derek RichardsonApril 19th, 2019

  Two days after launch, Northrop Grumman’s NG-11 Cygnus cargo freighter rendezvoused and was berthed to the International Space Station's Unity module.

• Gallery: S.S. Roger Chaffee lifts off on flight to ISS

  Jason RhianApril 17th, 2019

  Taking to the skies at the very opening of a five-minute long launch window, Northrop Grumman Corporation's S.S. Roger Chaffee Cygnus cargo freighter leaped into the skies from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A. The mission got underway at 4:46 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

• Astronauts route power cables during 3rd spacewalk of 2019

  Derek RichardsonApril 9th, 2019

  During a 6.5-hour spacewalk, two International Space Station astronauts finished battery work and routed cables across the outpost.

• Progress MS-11 launches toward ISS on 2-orbit trek

  Derek RichardsonApril 4th, 2019

  Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1a rocket with the latest Progress resupply freighter bound for the International Space Station.

• Astronauts wrap 2nd spacewalk of 2019

  Derek RichardsonMarch 30th, 2019

  Astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch ventured outside the International Space Station to continue work replacing aging batteries on the exterior truss.

• Assignment shuffle precludes all-female spacewalk

  Derek RichardsonMarch 26th, 2019

  NASA said assignments for the next two spacewalks outside the International Space Station have been changed because of “spacesuit availability.”

• Dream Chaser passes latest NASA development milestone

  Derek RichardsonMarch 24th, 2019

  Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser space plane passed another milestone in its development to be the third commercial cargo freighter for the ISS.