News Archive / Tagged: Roscosmos
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Soyuz MS-18 reaches International Space Station after 2 orbits
Derek RichardsonApril 9th, 2021The Soyuz MS-18 crew took the express lane to the International Space Station, reaching the outpost less the four hours after leaving Earth.
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Cosmonauts still troubleshooting slight air leak aboard ISS
Derek RichardsonApril 8th, 2021Russian cosmonauts are still working to plug a slight air leak aboard the International Space Station, which was first noticed in 2019 and located in 2020.
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NASA assigns Mark Vande Hei to Soyuz MS-18 mission to ISS
Derek RichardsonMarch 10th, 2021NASA has assigned astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the Soyuz MS-18 mission for a roughly six-month trip to the International Space Station.
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Cosmonaut remotely guides Progress MS-16 to ISS docking port
Derek RichardsonFebruary 17th, 2021After a two-day trek, the unpiloted Russian cargo ship Progress MS-16 docked with the International Space Station after a cosmonaut remotely took manual control of a normally automatic process.
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Progress MS-16 freighter launched on two-day trek to space station
Derek RichardsonFebruary 15th, 2021The next Russian cargo ship bound for the International Space Station, Progress MS-16, has launched from Kazakhstan with fuel and supplies.
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Progress MS-15 cargo ship departs International Space Station
Derek RichardsonFebruary 9th, 2021Russia’s Progress MS-15 cargo freighter has departed the International Space Station and performed a destructive reentry following 201 days at the ISS.
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The ISS marks two decades of continuous human presence
Derek RichardsonNovember 2nd, 2020The International Space Station has just crossed 20 years of continuous human occupation as its unbroken string of expedition crews continue to perform a wide range of scientific research aboard this multinational outpost.
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Progress MS-15 cargo ship takes ‘express lane’ to ISS
Derek RichardsonJuly 23rd, 2020The Russian Progress MS-15 cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station in a reported record time to deliver supplies and experiments to the Expedition 63 crew, despite a last-second misalignment.
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Yevgeny Mikrin, General Designer of Russian space program, dead at age 64
Sean CostelloMay 5th, 2020The Russian space community is mourning the tragic loss of their General Designer, with Roscosmos confirming today that Yevgeny Anatolyevich Mikrin died in hospital on May 5, 2020, at the age of 64.
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Progress 75 resupply ship docks at International Space Station
Sean CostelloApril 25th, 2020At 1:12am EDT on April 25, 2020, the uncrewed Progress 75 Russian resupply ship successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS).
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Progress MS-12 makes fast-track flight to ISS
Derek RichardsonJuly 31st, 2019Two orbits after launching from Kazakhstan, Russia’s Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with the International Space Station.
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From Lunar to LEO, MS-13 trio blasts off toward ISS
Jason RhianJuly 20th, 2019Fifty years is a long time. In the past half-century NASA has gone from launching men to the Moon to being dependent on the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, for access to low-Earth orbit. The latest flight under the agreement took place 50 years to the day NASA achieved what was once believed to be impossible.
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Spektr-RG telescope launched atop Proton-M rocket
Patrick AttwellJuly 14th, 2019The second Proton launch of 2019 took to the skies above the Baikonur Cosmodrome today with the Spektr-RG telescope for the Russian and German space agencies. It marked the start of a mission some 24 years in the making.
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Soyuz MS-11 trio returns to Earth after 7 months in space
Derek RichardsonJune 25th, 2019Three International Space Station crew members returned to Earth in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft, bringing an end to their 204-day mission.
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NASA astronaut assigned record-setting mission
Derek RichardsonApril 23rd, 2019Having been aboard the International Space Station for about a month, NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set for an extended stay of about 11 months.
