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 by Tauren Dyson Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018
Russia approved two new space launches for 2018 after it scrapped the launch of Soyuz-FG that forced a U.S. astronaut and Russian cosmonaut to eject from their spacecraft. The Soyuz rocket will send up a robot-controlled cargo ship to the International Space Station, or ISS, on Nov. 16 for a resupply mission. Pending the outcome of that mission, a Dec. 3 launch, manned by cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and the Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques will go to the ISS to relieve its current crew. according to space.com. The Oct. 11 launch failure occurred after a booster malfunctioned on the Soyuz-FG two minutes after liftoff, forcing NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to safely discharge from the spacecraft 200 miles from their launch site, according to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. The quick turnaround of getting the Soyuz back to space quickly comes from the need to relieve the crew currently manning the ISS. After NASA shut down its space shuttle program in 2011, the Soyuz has been the only delivery method for astronauts going to or leaving the floating space station. German astronaut Alexander Gerst, U.S. astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev have been occupying the ISS since June 3. "To ensure the implementation of the Launch Manifest for the missions under the Federal Space Program and Russia's international cooperation programs, Roscosmos has arranged a development of preventive measures to avoid any such contingences in the future and taking of urgent actions to resume Soyuz launches in November 2018," a Roscosmos statement read.
Fleet Space Technologies joins Rocket Lab manifest for It's Business Time mission Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has signed a contract with fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT) start-up Fleet Space Technologies to launch two satellites that will form the foundation of a global IoT communications constellation. The two Proxima satellites are the first of a fleet of small, low-cost satellites that will provide internet connectivity for millions of sensor devices based in remote locations on Earth. The satellites have been added to the manifest for Rocket Lab's upcoming mi ... read more
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