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  • SpaceX CRS-5 mission on it’s way to ISS

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    Following a smooth countdown this morning the Falcon 9’s engines roared to live to carry the Dragon spacecraft to orbit, Follow successful separation from the second stage the solar array’s deploy and the spacecraft is now heading to the International Space Station to deliver 1.8 metric tonnes of supplies. Elon Musk tweeted two updates on…

  • Weekly Space Blog 5/16

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    Soyuz TMA-11M crew lands safely The three crew members of TMA-11M landed safely after spending 188 days in space, See full article here Russia fires back over US Sanctions This week Russia fire back against US sanctions in two key areas, the first was to spurn NASA’s proposal to extend the life of the ISS through 2024.…

  • Weekly Space Blog 5/2

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    We are back with our weekly blog, and what an interesting week it has been. SpaceX announce suit against ULA Block Buy On Friday 4/25, SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had filed a suit protesting the bulk buy of Rocket Core’s from ULA.  SpaceX made several arguments against the block buy, including the…

  • SpaceX CRS-3 Report

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    Well after a four month break I am pleased to say the blog is back and will be updated regularly.  The reason for the long hiatus was due to a busy Christmas session quickly followed by the birth of my third daughter Annabella in January. Today’s post will focus on last weeks launch, capture and berthing…

  • And then there were two

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    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…

  • Weekly Space Blog 9/28

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    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…

  • Soyuz launch, ARKYD Kickstarter, Astronaut Abby

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    Welcome to my new weekly blog on all things Space, this week we take a look at the latest Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, the ARKYD Kickstarter project and Astronaut Abby a 15 year old with an amazing vision for STEM and Space. Soyuz Launch On Tuesday this week Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca…

  • Liftoff of Falcon 9 with Dragon

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    This morning SpaceX successfully launched their latest Falcon 9 witth Dragon towards the international space station.  Following an aborted launch on Saturday that was traced back to a faulty value on engine 5 SpaceX successfully fixed, validated and prepared for launch this morning. After the 9 minute ride to orbit which was performed flawlessly by…

  • 3 Weeks and Counting to SpaceX Launch

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    In just over three weeks SpaceX is scheduled to launch their second and hopefully last COTS demo mission.  Today we are going to take a look in detail at the Dragon spacecraft and what a successful mission will mean for SpaceX and the US space industry in general. Dragon Designed and built by SpaceX the…