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NASA okays commercial airlock for space station
A commercial airlock built in partnership by NanoRacks and Boeing will be connected to the International Space Station in 2019, the companies announced Monday, after the proposed project won preliminary approval from NASA managers.
Japanese cargo ship ends mission after space debris experiment flounders
Japan's HTV supply ship fell to Earth on Sunday more than a week after leaving the International Space Station, burning up in the atmosphere after officials gave up on an experiment looking into ways to remove space junk from orbit.
Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest
SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled to send a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station in mid-February, deferring a mission with an EchoStar communications satellite that was set to take off this month.
Video: Soyuz rocket blasts off with German-made, Spanish-owned satellite
Watch a video replay of Friday night's blastoff of a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center with Hispasat 36W-1, a communications satellite developed by OHB in Germany for Spain's Hispasat to test out new telecom technologies and provide data networking, video and broadband services over South America and Europe.
Japanese cargo craft departs space station
Japan's sixth HTV supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday and headed for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with trash and disused batteries from the research lab, but engineers will first use the spacecraft for a pioneering experiment to investigate a new way to remove space junk from orbit.
Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew’s rocket
Russian engineers will replace rocket engines on two Soyuz rockets assigned to send a batch of supplies and the next crew to the International Space Station after an investigation revealed foreign objects or a manufacturing defect led to the crash of a Progress cargo craft on launch in December, according to Russian media reports and a statement from the Russian space agency.
SpaceX’s first crew launch moved back to 2018
Astronauts will not fly to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship until at least May 2018, NASA said this week, missing a previous target launch date at the end of next year.
Japanese HTV makes battery delivery to International Space Station
Four days after a picture-perfect blastoff from southern Japan, a cargo-carrying supply freighter arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday with 4.5 tons of equipment, food, clothing and experiments.
Japan’s HTV supply ship blasts off for space station
A Japanese H-2B rocket launched toward the International Space Station on Friday with a fresh set of high-power batteries, critical parts for the research lab's carbon dioxide scrubber, and several tons of food, water and provisions.
Timeline of the H-2B rocket’s launch of the Kounotori 6 supply ship
Japan's Kounotori 6 cargo carrier will get a 15-minute boost from a powerful H-2B rocket to send the supply ship and its 4.5 tons of provisions and experiments on a four-day pursuit of the International Space Station.