Tag: Cygnus
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Weekly Space Blog 10/12
With the shutdown continuing there isn’t much news from NASA this week LADEE enters lunar orbit Dispite the government shutdown the recently launched LADEE spacecraft entered into orbit around the moon this week. The spacecraft launched last month has been traveling to the moon since it launch and after a series of burns to refine…
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Weekly Space Blog 10/5
This week has been another busy week in space. Cygnus berths to station Following a week delay, due to a data glitch, Orbital Sciences Cygnus spacecraft successfully berthed with the International Space Station last Sunday. See my previous post here. Falcon 9 v1.1 Successfully Launched On Sunday SpaceX successfully launched there modified Falcon 9 rocket. …
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And then there were two
With the arrival of the Cygnus spacecraft at the International Space Station the US now has two commercial suppliers to deliver cargo to the station. Since the retirement of the shuttle and before SpaceX and Orbital Sciences the US was reliant on International Partners Russia, ESA and Japan to deliver cargo. There are now five…
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Weekly Space Blog 9/28
This week in space… Soyuz Launched to ISS This week saw another Soyuz launch to the space station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M were Russian Cosmonaut’s Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as NASA Astronaut Michael Hopkins. Following a flawless countdown the three launched at 4:58:50 pm EDT, eight minutes later they were in…
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Weekly Space Blog 9/21
Another amazing week in space… Cygnus Successfully Launched With the exception of one issue with the fuel system that caused a slight delay in the launch time Orbital successfully launched there Antares Rocket with the Cygnus spacecraft. The Cygnus is currently on route to the International Space Station and once a number of demonstration steps…