In the wake of Thursday's launch abort of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, are determining the cause of the malfunction that resulted in the successful ballistic landing and recovery of the crew, as well as considering the future of the ISS.
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NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were forced to make an unplanned descent through Earth's atmosphere today following a malfunction of their Soyuz launch vehicle. The crew has now touched down in Kazakhstan, where they are being attended by rescue personnel.
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Over two weeks after an air leak was detected and sealed aboard the ISS, NASA and Roscosmos have issued a joint statement saying that they have complete confidence in one another, as well as in the station crew, that the investigation is well in hand, and that the ISS is operating normally.
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According to Russian media reports, Roscosmos believes that last week's air leak aboard the ISS was more likely due to human error back on Earth than the impact of a micrometeorite.
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There was drama aboard the International Space Station (ISS) today as the astronauts aboard raced to find and seal an air leak detected in one of the Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station. The leak, which was detected yesterday, appears to have been caused by a micrometeorite.
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The ESA/Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone’s favorite Red Planet.
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At the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, this week, NASA and the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, signed a joint statement making the US space agency's deep space gateway concept a common goal for the two major powers.
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If drones catch on like they seem they might, there stands to one day be quite a few unmanned vehicles buzzing about overhead. Russia is taking steps to manage all that potential new traffic, with its space agency announcing plans to test a nationwide monitoring network for drones.
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It's been a busy year in space with new Mars missions launched, a NASA probe saying hello to Jupiter, and humanity's most ambitious comet exploration mission drawing to a close.
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ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract to go ahead with the Euro-Russian project scheduled to launch in 2020 that aims to place a rover on the Red Planet.
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