Tag: Skybot F-850
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Second time’s the charm for Soyuz docking
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station late Monday, seen here through a camera looking out of the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Two days after a dramatic docking abort, an unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft glided in for a…
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Soyuz docking aborted at International Space Station
The Russian Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft seen during approach to the space station Saturday. Credit: NASA TV Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station commanded an approaching unpiloted Soyuz spacecraft to abort its docking Saturday after the ship’s automated rendezvous system ran into trouble, leaving ground teams assessing what went wrong and whether to attempt another…
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Russians ready unpiloted Soyuz capsule for launch
An unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with a humanoid robot in the commander’s seat instead of a cosmonaut, is scheduled for liftoff late Wednesday (U.S. time) from Kazakhstan on a test flight to verify the spaceship’s compatibility with the new-generation Soyuz-2.1a rocket set to begin launching crews to the International Space Station next year. Flying…
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Live coverage: Soyuz MS-14 docks at space station
Live coverage of the test flight of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Robot-carrying capsule launches on test flight to space station
The Russian Skybot F-850 robot, seen here inside the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft after launch, will undergo experiments at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Roscosmos With a robot rather than a cosmonaut in the commander’s seat, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft rocketed into orbit from Kazakhstan late Wednesday (U.S. time) en route to the International Space…