This type of satellite, also known as Luch, has attracted attention before, and not for good reasons though parked in the geostationary belt, Olymp-K jogs around instead of staying stationary, presumably to eavesdrop on neighbouring satellites. Russia hasn’t officially disclosed the payload, but Next Spaceflight suspects it of being an Olymp-K satellite belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defence. ET from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia’s Proton-M rocket, with a Briz-M upper stage, is scheduled to blast off on Sunday, March 12 at 6:12 p.m. The replacement Crew-6 reached the ISS on Friday, bringing the total ISS population to 11. Once a departure date and time are set, the crew will climb into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance for the trip back to Earth. NASA hasn’t announced a firm departure date, but Crew-5 is scheduled to deliver farewell remarks on Wednesday at 11:35 a.m. ISS Crew-5 returns home… maybeĪfter a six-month stint on the International Space Station, the time has come for NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina to return home. Specific talking points could include damage incurred to the launch pad when SLS blasted off, strange but not mission-critical anomalies experienced during the mission, and the performance of Orion’s high-tech heat shield, among other things. There’s potentially lots to discuss, including the performance of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion capsule, which went to space without a crew. The mission ended on December 11, 2022, as the Orion spacecraft concluded its 270,000-mile (435,000-kilometre) mission to the Moon and back.

ET to provide an update on the latest analyses of data gathered during the Artemis 1 mission. On Tuesday, NASA will hold a media briefing at 12:00 p.m. The mission, coyly named “Good Luck, Have Fun,” will attempt an orbital launch, but as a demonstration mission, Terran 1 will not carry any payloads on its first attempt to reach space. The two-stage, 33.53 m-tall (33-metre) rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.

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