A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set for its critical Return to Flight mission and an ambitious return of the vehicle’s first stage to the launch site Sunday night.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket rolls to the launch pad at Site 31/6 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 19, 2015 in preparation for the launch of the first Progress MS cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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The Progress M-28M cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Saturday and successfully closed out a five-month mission with a targeted destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.
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SpaceX conducted a Static Fire Test with its first upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on Friday as one of the final steps ahead of the return to flight mission and introduction of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust Version.
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The spent rocket stage that delivered a crew of three to orbit earlier in the week put on a spectacular show for observers in North America when slamming into Earth’s atmosphere and breaking apart in a bright fireball moving silently across the night sky.
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An unscheduled spacewalk is being prepared by International Space Station Crew Members Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra with great urgency aboard the orbiting laboratory to be ready to head outside as early as Monday to recover the Space Station’s Mobile Transporter that got stuck in a position between work sites Wednesday night.
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Seems appropriate that my first photo should be of the #SoyuzTMA19M that delivered us safely to @Space_Station pic.twitter.com/bShtSlDZcc — Tim
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Galileo Satellites 11 & 12 received an on-target orbital injection on Thursday by their Soyuz / Fregat launch vehicle as seen in orbital data for the two latest additions to Europe’s navigation satellite fleet.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday, lifting a pair of European Galileo Navigation Satellites into a Medium Earth Orbit 23,200 Kilometers high in a mission lasting close to four hours.
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An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launches from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on December 16, 2015 on a mission to deliver six Singaporean Satellites to a Near-Equatorial Orbit.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center on December 17, 2015 on a mission to deliver the 11th and 12th Galileo Navigation Satellites to orbit as the year-closing mission from the tropical launch site.
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Wednesday’s launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with six satellites for Singapore achieved its target orbit, according to tracking data that shows all six satellites were released from the rocket to begin their respective missions.
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse launch vehicle blasted off from its tropical launch site in French Guiana on Thursday at 11:51 UTC, embarking on a mission to deliver the 11th and 12th satellite in the Galileo satellite navigation system to orbit.
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China’s ‘Monkey King’ Dark Matter Particle Explorer blasted off atop a Long March 2D rocket on Thursday, embarking on a mission to join the ongoing efforts of understanding dark matter signatures, filling in the gaps in high-energy astrophysics.
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Tuesday’s arrival of the next crew members at the International Space Station had more excitement in store for the trio than expected when their Soyuz spacecraft suddenly backed out of its final approach to the orbiting laboratory and started backing away from its destination – requiring experienced Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko to manually dock the spacecraft.
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A Soyuz rocket has been cleared to thunder off from its tropical launch site in South America on Thursday, carrying a pair of European Galileo Navigation Satellites into an orbit over 20,000 Kilometers in altitude.
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Great to greet the new guys on @space_station yesterday. First full day with our full crew aboard! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/e4gRJp61BN —
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