Dragon CRS-19 spacecraft docked to space station.
On December 8, 2019 at 12:47 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-19 (CRS-19 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station. The linkup operation was carried out with the help of the giant 17-meter Canadarm. The capture with Canadarm-2 was performed by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano at 10:05 UTC. The Dragon spacecraft was maneuvered into position and attached to a berthing port on the space station's Harmony module. This docking marked the 19th time a Dragon spaceship has reached the space station, counting a demonstration flight in 2012. The Dragon spacecraft delivered 2617 kilograms of supplies, equipment and research investigations for the station’s crew.
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"Cygnus” (CRS NG-11) mission completed.
On December 6, 2019 the US "Cygnus” CRS-11 (NG-11 “S.S. Roger Chaffee”) unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 16:55 UTC.
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Dragon (CRS-19) supply spacecraft launched to ISS.
On December 5, 2019 at 17:29 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-19 flight also known as SpX-19) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 20th successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 19th successful flight of a “Dragon” to the ISS.
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US and Italian astronauts performed 3rd spacewalk.
On December 2, 2019, American astronaut Andrew Morgan and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano performed the 3rd spacewalk to continue the repairing of the AMS-02 cosmic ray detector. The EVA (extravehicular activity) lasted 5 hours and 56 minutes. This was the 5th spacewalk for Luca Parmitano and the 6th for Andrew Morgan.
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“Progress MS-12” mission completed.
On November 29, 2019 the “Progress MS-12” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 17:19 UTC.
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US and Italian astronauts performed a spacewalk.
On November 15, 2019, American astronaut Andrew Morgan and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano performed a spacewalk. It was the first of four spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, also designated AMS-02AMS-02 (a cosmic ray detector), breezing through work to prep the device for invasive surgery to splice in new coolant pumps and extend the instrument’s life probing the composition of the universe. The EVA (extravehicular activity) lasted 6 hours and 39 minutes. This was the third spacewalk for Luca Parmitano and the fourth for Andrew Morgan.
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“Cygnus” CRS NG-12 spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On November 4, 2019, the American "Cygnus” CRS-12 (NG-12 “S.S. Alan Bean”) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by American astronaut Jessica Meir inside the space station at 09:10 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 11:21 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3705 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 12th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS.
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Japanese HTV-8 cargo ends its flight.
On November 3, 2019, the Japanese HTV "Kounotori-8” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere at 02:09 UTC. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the Pacific.
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“Cygnus NG-12” cargo spacecraft launched to Space Station.
On November 2, 2019 at 13:59 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, USA. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Antares-230” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” NG-12 (previously known as CRS OA-12) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. The "Cygnus” NG-12 is the 12th successful flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus.
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