On October 5, 2021 at 12:22 UTC, the Russian "Soyuz MS-19” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Rassvet” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered 3 Russian crew members to the ISS - cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov; spaceflight-participant, film director Klim Shipenko and spaceflight-participant, actress Yulia Peresild. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 65 members – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov; American astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur; Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide; French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The 10 crew members will work together till October 17, 2021. Klim Shipenko will have to shoot about 35-40 minutes of film on board the ISS, a ... Read more »

On October 5, 2021 at 08:55 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-19” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. There are 3 Russian crew members aboard the spacecraft: Commander, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center); spaceflight-participant, film director Klim Shipenko (right) and spaceflight-participant, actress Yulia Peresild (left).

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On October 1, 2021 at 02:59 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the in the Atlantic Ocean not far from Florida, USA. It was the "SpaceX CRS-23” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the 3^rd flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 23^rd flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On September 30, 2021 at 13:12 UTC, the Dragon CRS-23 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. It’s the 3^rd flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 23^rd flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On September 28, 2021 the Russian “Soyuz MS-18” spacecraft was successfully redocked from the "Rassvet” module to the Russian “Nauka” module. The operations were carried out manually by Soyuz commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novickiy. During the operations on board the Soyuz MS-18 there were also flight engineers, Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei. The undocking command was issued at 12:21 UTC. The Soyuz departed from the station, flew around it, and docked to the “Nauka” module at 13:04 UTC. It was the first docking to the “Nauka” module which had arrived in July 2021. The relocation maneuver cleared the way for the “Soyuz MS-19” crew spacecraft to dock with the “Rassvet” module at the space station in October. During the redocking, the 4 othe ... Read more »

On September 27, 2021 at 18:11 UTC, the "Atlas-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 30th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the Landsat-9 remote sensing satellite.

On September 27, 2021 at 08:20 UTC the "Chang Zheng-3B” (Long March-3B) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket was to orbit the “Shiyan-10” experimental satellite. The rocket-carrier successfully reached the mission’s targeted orbit, but ground teams detected a problem with the rocket’s payload, according to the government-run Xinhua news agency. No details were released about the technical problems with the “Shiyan-10” spacecraft. Chinese officials also did not disclose any details about the “Shiyan-10” mission. U.S. military tracking data indicate two objects from the launch are circling in an elongated orbit with a perigee, or low point, around 200 kilometers above Earth. The orbital apogee, or high point, wa ... Read more »

On September 27, 2021 at 06:19 UTC, the “Kuaizhou-1A” (‘Quick-vessel’ in English) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the “Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D” Earth-imaging satellite.

On September 20, 2021 at 14:08 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-3” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the Chinese “Tianhe” space station core module. Tianzhou means “heavenly vessel” in Chinese. The spacecraft delivered supplies to support the next crew to live aboard the “Tianhe” space station. The “Shenzhou-13” crew is scheduled to launch in mid-October for a six-month expedition on the space station.

On September 20, 2021 at 07:10 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-3” unmanned supply spacecraft. The spacecraft is to dock with the Chinese space station.

On September 18, 2021 at 23:06 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Inspiration4 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The spacecraft delivered to Earth 4 members of the first privately-funded, non-government crew - Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski. All 4 are from the USA. They spent in space 2 days, 23 hours and 03 minutes. One of the Crew Dragon missions (Crew-2 mission) is still docked at the International Space Station and is scheduled to return to Earth with four astronauts in November, making Inspiration4 the third “Crew Dragon” flight to return to Earth with human passengers (also known as “SpaceX Dragon 2” spacecraft).

On September 18, 2021 the Chinese “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the aft docking port of the Chinese “Tianhe” core module and in about 4 hours it was docked to the forward docking port of the “Tianhe” core module.

On September 17, 2021 at 05:34 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-12” landing capsule landed safely at the designated area of the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desertin, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The mission’s return zone in the Inner Mongolia region, known as Dongfeng, is a new location for Shenzhou landings. The Dongfeng landing field is near the Jiuquan launch center, where “Shenzhou-12” blasted off on June 16. Previous Shenzhou missions parachuted into a different part of Inner Mongolia known as Siziwang Banner.

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On September 16, 2021 at 00:02 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Inspiration4 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9” rocket-carrier.

There are 4 crew members aboard the spacecraft – Mission Commander Jared Isaacman (left); pilot Sian Proctor (second left); medical officer Hayley Arceneaux (second right); mission specialist Christopher Sembroski (right). All 4 are from the USA. ... Read more »

On September 16, 2021 at 00:56 UTC, the Chinese "Shenzhou-12” (神舟十二号) manned spacecraft undocked from Chinese “Tianhe” core module of the new space station to deliver to Earth the 3 cosmonauts – Nie Haisheng (聂海胜), Liu Boming (刘伯明) and Tang Hongbo (汤鸿波).

On September 14, 2021 at 18:07 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier equipped with the "Fregat-M” booster (upper stage) was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket orbited 34 OneWeb satellites.

On September 12, 2021, Japanes astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to build a support fixture for a roll-out solar array blanket that will be attached later, to replace a device that measures the strength of the electrical environment around the ISS. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes. It was the 4^th spacewalk for Akihiko Hoshide and the 6^th spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.