Archiv: Roscosmos


05.06.2026 - 22:22 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Internationale Raumstation: ISS-Besatzung muss vorübergehend Schutz suchen

Roskosmos teilte mit, dass ihre Experten zwei Lecks an Bord der Internationalen Raumstation entdeckt hätten, für die Besatzung jedoch keine unmittelbare Gefahr bestehe. Das erste Leck sei rasch abgedichtet worden, und derzeit liefen die Vorbereitungen zur Abdichtung des zweiten. „Die Sicherheit der Besatzung und der Bordsysteme ist nicht gefährdet, der Druck an Bord der ISS ist stabil und wird auf dem vorgesehenen Niveau gehalten.“

Die NASA und Roskosmos – die beiden Hauptbetreiber der Station – streiten seit Monaten über die Ursache und mögliche Reparaturmaßnahmen für kleine Luftlecks im Servicemodul Swesda.

05.06.2026 - 21:59 [ Space.com ]

Astronauts on International Space Station take shelter in SpaceX Dragon as cosmonauts try to fix air leak

The four astronauts of SpaceX‘s Crew-12 mission are NASA‘s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-February for a six-month stay.

They took shelter today in Crew-12‘s Dragon capsule „Freedom,“ along with NASA‘s Williams, who arrived at the station in late November aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Williams flew with two crewmates on that Soyuz — cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. They‘re presumably the ones who attempted the PrK leak fix today. (Stevens‘ X post did not mention who performed the repair or what exactly the operation entailed.)

05.06.2026 - 21:50 [ Associated Press ]

Astronauts briefly take shelter during repair to fix leak on the International Space Station

NASA on Friday temporarily ordered astronauts to take shelter during repairs to fix a fresh leak aboard the International Space Station.

The five astronauts moved into the SpaceX capsule that is docked at the station while cosmonauts worked to fix the leak, which is on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory.

26.02.2025 - 02:59 [ Jean-Jacques Dordain and Michael D. Griffin / spacenews.com ]

Transferring the International Space Station into the future

(July 1, 2024)

The International Space Station is the largest, most complex and most important element of space infrastructure yet deployed, and one of the most incredible engineering accomplishments in human history. It is the result of an international, diplomatic initiative reconciling in space the Western world and the Eastern world by combining the two space stations until then planned separately by each side – Space Station Freedom and Mir 2 – involving five major partners, the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada and Russia.
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For example, to move the ISS from its present 400-kilometer altitude to an 800-kilometer altitude circular orbit requires a boost of about 220 meters per second, about the same as required for precise deorbit control. At the higher altitude, the orbital lifetime would be many decades, providing ample time for future generations to take their own decisions and actions.
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We are not in charge anymore, but our question to the current generation is: since the boost stage must be built anyway, would it not be better to use that stage to place the ISS in a higher orbit for the possible use of a future generation than to destroy it upon reentry?

26.02.2025 - 00:21 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Raumfahrt: Musk, die ISS und die gestrandeten Astronauten

(February 22, 2025)

Der ehemalige Astronaut Ulrich Walter bringt einen weiteren Player ins Spiel: „Die Inder haben auch ein bemanntes Raumfahrtprogramm, und falls die USA als Partner wegfallen, würde ich eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit mit den Indern empfehlen.“

Klar ist: Auf unabsehbare Zeit hat Europa keine eigene Rakete und kein Raumschiff, um selbst Astronauten in den Weltraum zu bringen. Wenn früher als geplant auch noch die ISS wegfällt, könnte es für ESA-Astronauten düster aussehen.

27.08.2023 - 03:15 [ CNN ]

SpaceX, NASA launch four astronauts from four countries

The crew is riding aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance capsule on the mission, dubbed Crew-7. The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:27 a.m. ET Saturday.

The four astronauts on the mission include NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, who is serving as mission commander; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen representing the European Space Agency; Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA; and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos.

28.02.2021 - 21:17 [ Trend.az ]

Russia launches its first Arctic-monitoring satellite

The creation of a satellite system in highly elliptical orbits is necessary for information collection to solve operational meteorology and hydrology problems, and monitoring the climate and environment in the Arctic region, it said.

14.10.2020 - 13:40 [ U.S.News ]

Russian-US Crew Launches on Fast Track to the Space Station

For the first time, they tried a two-orbit approach and docked with the space station in just a little over three hours after lift-off. Previously it took twice as long for crews to reach the station.

27.01.2019 - 11:13 [ Sputniknews.com ]

Earth’s Oldest Known Rock Found on Moon – Scientists Explain How It Got There

This rock was formed between 4 and 4.1 billion years ago, about 12.4 miles beneath the Earth’s crust, yet the most curious thing about it that it was found far beyond our planet’s surface – on the Moon.

The rock was among the samples discovered by the Apollo 14 crew. The Apollo missions brought back a whole bunch of rock samples, and scientists have been methodically analyzing them ever since.