International Space Station managers decided on Sunday to postpone a scheduled spacewalk from Monday after additional diagnostics performed on the Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm showed a connectivity problem on the primary command string of the newly-installed Latching End Effector could be solved through software.
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Spacewalkers aboard the International Space Station will be forced to backtrack on Monday, reversing work completed on a January 23 excursion after controllers on the ground were unable to establish a redundant command path to the newly-installed grappling hand on the Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.
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Japan’s HTV-6 cargo spacecraft closed out an eight-week mission on Sunday with a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
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The HTV-6 Cargo Spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Friday after a six-week stay, facilitating an extremely busy cargo mission, inside and on the exterior of the orbiting complex.
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A group of six small satellites from Japan, Singapore and Italy was released from the International Space Station on Monday to begin a variety of technical demonstration missions with particular focus on orbital debris removal and re-entry systems.
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The robots aboard the International Space Station were busy over the past four days starting the most complex robotic maintenance task every carried out on ISS to replace the Station’s aging batteries with new state of the art units that will power the orbiting laboratory for its final decade of operations.
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A small satellite was deployed from the International Space Station Monday morning for a technical demonstration of a tether extending system using a mother and daughter satellite.
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Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicle arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday for an out-of-this-world cargo delivery to the orbiting laboratory including the first batch of new batteries that will overhaul the ISS power system for the Station’s next decade of operations.
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Japan’s HTV-6 spacecraft, launched atop an H-IIB rocket on Friday, is inbound to the International Space Station for a robotic capture on Tuesday to mark the start of a 60-day stay for the delivery of important cargo including the first batch of batteries to revamp the ISS power system.
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Japan’s H-IIB heavy-lift rocket arced into the night skies over Tanegashima Island on Friday, carrying into orbit the sixth H-II Transfer Vehicle on a critical supply run to the International Space Station and its six crew members.
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Japan’s H-II Transport Vehicle is poised for liftoff from the picturesque Tanegashima Space Center on Friday to begin a four-day link-up with the International Space Station to deliver nearly six metric tons of cargo to the orbiting outpost including a set of six new batteries that will revamp the Station’s power system and replace a dozen aging battery units.
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The Soyuz TMA-17M crew of Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren made a safe landing in Kazakhstan on Friday after a space flight of four and a half months. It marked the fifth nighttime landing of a Soyuz returning from ISS, but the first to take place after sunset instead of the early morning hours.
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Three International Space Station crew members made a safe return to Earth on Friday, coming in for a parachute-assisted landing
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A trio of Soyuz crew members parachuted down to a safe landing in the dark of night on Friday, returning from a 142-day mission to the International Space Station. Making a rare nighttime landing and the first post-sunset touchdown in ISS history, Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren returned safely
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Three International Space Station residents departed the orbiting complex on Friday to start their return journey towards a rare nighttime landing of the Soyuz spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
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A trio of International Space Station crew members are on the eve of their return to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-17M after a mission of four and a half months living and working on the orbiting laboratory. Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren are set for a rare nighttime landing well after sunset in typical winter conditions in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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The HTV-5 spacecraft brought to an end a five week mission into space on Tuesday, burning up in the atmosphere after making a targeted deorbit maneuver.
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The HTV-5 cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Monday, being released by the Station’s robotic arm and sent on a short free flight of just over a day to set up for the craft’s fiery re-entry that will mark the end of a five-week mission.
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The HTV-5 spacecraft is ready to wrap up a four-week stay at the International Space Station that was dedicated to the delivery of crucial cargo, re-stocking the shelves aboard the orbiting complex that had gotten rather empty given the loss of cargo missions.
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