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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The Prometheus 1-1 satellite, one of eight secretive satellites operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, re-entered on December 11, 2015 after two years in orbit.
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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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SpaceX has re-aligned its plans for the return to flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, also coinciding with the premiere of the Full Thrust version of the launch vehicle. The company plans to conduct one launch before the year is out, currently targeting December 16 for the usual Static Fire Test to clear the rocket for liftoff on the 19th
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A Zenit 3SLBF rocket lifts off from Site 45/1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 11, 2015 to embark on a nine-hour ascent mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 weather satellite to orbit.
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A Zenit 3SLBF rocket lifts off from Site 45/1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 11, 2015 to embark on a nine-hour ascent mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 weather satellite to orbit.
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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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NASA’s Dawn mission, currently in the midst of studying Dwarf Planet Ceres, released new findings on some of the curious features discovered on Ceres after the craft’s arrival back in March, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit two celestial bodies in the solar system.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced earlier this week that the agency’s Akatsuki Venus Orbiter successfully completed its last-chance orbital insertion maneuver and was tracked close to the expected orbit around Venus, saving a mission that had been feared lost after the spacecraft had missed its first opportunity of entering orbit around Earth’s neighbor planet.
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A Zenit 3 rocket blasted off on Friday, lighting up the evening skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome for its 83rd and possibly last flight, embarking on a long mission to deliver the Elektro-L No. 2 satellite to Geostationary Drift Orbit.
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Wednesday’s launch of China’s Long March 3B rocket reached its targeted Geostationary Transfer Orbit as evident in orbital data released by the Joint Space Operations Center, showing the ChinaSat-1C in a standard transfer orbit from where it will soon begin its climb into Geostationary Orbit.
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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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#Taiwan time-lapse combo bonus: day pass followed by night pass.https://t.co/mVmfCH2hBD — Kjell Lindgren (@astro_kjell) December 10, 2015 They say "save
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The Prometheus 1-2 satellite, one of eight secretive satellites operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, re-entered on December 10, 2015 after two years in orbit.
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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 Prometheus 1-6 satellite, one of eight secretive satellites operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, re-entered on December 9, 2015 after two years in orbit.
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Cygnus Rendezvous & Capture: >>Cygnus Mission Updates Experiments: Differential Effects on Telomeres and Telomerase in Twin Astronauts Associated With Spaceflight
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