On February 1, 2024, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S. S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 09:59 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 12:14 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station.

On January 30, 2024 at 17:07 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (LC40), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” NG-20 (the S. S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman under the Commercial Resupply Services II (CRS-2) contract with NASA, was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the first time a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Cygnus spacecraft for Northrop Grumman. The winding down of the use of Russian-made engines forced the retirement of the “Antares-230” rocket. This was also the first t ... Read more »

On January 20, 2024 at 10:44 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt to the ISS. The new comers were welcomed by the current ISS Expedition 70 members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov.

On January 19, 2024 at 12:37 UTC, the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On January 12, 2024 at 08:02 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the aft port of the Chinese “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Tiangong Space Station). It was switched to independent flight mode.

On January 18, 2024 at 21:49 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier.

There were 4 crew members onboard the Crew Dragon – Commander, Michael López-Alegría, a US citizen and retired NASA astronaut; pilot, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei; Mission Specialist 1, Turkish astronaut Alper Ge ... Read more »

On January 17, 2024 at 17:46 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-7” (天舟七号) unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the “Tianhe” core module of the Chinese “Tiangong” Space Station. Tianzhou means “heavenly vessel” in Chinese.

On January 17, 2024 at 14:27 UTC, the Chang Zheng-7 (Long March-7) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianzhou-7” (天舟七号) unmanned supply spacecraft. The spacecraft is to dock with the Chinese space station.

On January 9, 2024 at 18:22 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-19 (NG-19, the S. S. Laurel Clark) unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited.

On December 22, 2023 at 10:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-19 (NG-19, the S. S. Laurel Clark) unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. After that, the spacecraft, was released by using the “Canadarm-2” orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 13:06 UTC.