On September 9, 2021, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk) to continue power and ethernet cable connections and installing handrails on the “Nauka” module. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 20 minutes (from 14:55 till 22:15 UTC). It was the 3^rd EVA for both cosmonauts.

On September 9, 2021 at 11:50 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 orbited telecommunications satellite.

On September 7, 2021 at 03:01 UTC the “Long March – 4C” (“Changzheng-4C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the Gaofen-5-02 remote sensing satellite.

On September 3, 2021, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk). The main objective of the spacewalk was accomplished: all eight power cables were successfully connected, along with partial connection of an ethernet cable, tying “Nauka” module into the station’s shared power and internet systems. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 54 minutes (from 14:41 till 22:35 UTC). It was the 2^nd EVA for both cosmonauts.

On August 30, 2021 at 14:30 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-23 (CRS-23 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station. It was the new generation of Dragon cargo spacecraft also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 3^rd SpaceX cargo vehicle that automatically docked to the space station without being captured by the Canadarm. This docking marked the 23^rd time a Dragon cargo spaceship has reached the space station, counting a demonstration flight in 2012 as well as the 3^rd time for the cargo version of the SpaceX Dragon-2 (Cargo Dragon-2).

On August 29, 2021 at 07:14 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, 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-23 flight also known as SpX-23) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 24^th successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 23^rd successful flight of a “Dragon” cargo spacecraft to the ISS. It was the 3^rd flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract awarded in January 2016. It was the 3^rd launch of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or ... Read more »

On August, 2021 at 15:41 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 orbited TJSW №7 (Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing №7) communications satellite.

On August 24, 2021, at 11:15 the “Long March –4C” (“Changzheng-4C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited two RSW (Ronghe Shiyan Weixing) test payloads for a planned constellation of internet satellites.

On August 21, 2021 at 22:13 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier equipped with the "Fregat” booster (upper stage) was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket orbited 34 OneWeb satellites. OneWeb’s broadband relay network is designed to beam high-speed internet signals around the world. After this launch, there are 288 OneWeb satellites in space.

On August 20, 2021 Chinese cosmonauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming performed the spacewalk to install a coolant pump and to lift a panoramic camera on the exterior of the complex. The EVA lasted 5 hours and 55 minutes. It was the 3^rd spacewalk for Liu Boming and the 1^st spacewalk for Nie Haisheng. The spacewalk was the third extravehicular activity in the history of China’s space program.

On August 18, 2021 at 22:32 UTC the “Long March – 4B” (“Changzheng-4B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited two “Tianhui-2” radar mapping satellites.

On August 17, 2021 at 01:47 UTC (on August 16 by local time) the “Vega” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited Airbus’s Pléiades Neo 4 Earth observation satellite, three tech demo CubeSats sponsored by the European Space Agency, and a commercial nanosatellite owned by a French startup company.

On August 12, 2021, the American "Cygnus” CRS-16 (NG-16, the S. S. Ellison Onizuka) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 10:07 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 13:42 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 16^th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS. This is the 5^th flight of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.

On August 12, 2021 at 00:13 UTC Indian GSLV Mk-2 rocket-carrier blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota Cosmodrome) on Sriharikota Island on the east coast of India. The rocket (GSLV - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) was to orbit the “EOS-03” Earth observation satellite. After good performance from the GSLV’s strap-on boosters, first stage, and second stage, the mission ran into trouble when the rocket’s third stage was supposed to take over to accelerate the “EOS-03” satellite into orbit. The Indian Space Research Organization said that the cryogenic upper stage did not ignite due to a “technical anomaly.”

On August 10, 2021 at 22:01 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-16 (the S. S. Ellison Onizuka), previously known as CRS OA-16, 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-16 is the 16^th successful flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus.

On August 5, 2021 at 16:30 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 orbited Chinasat-2E telecommunications satellite.

On August 4, 2021 at 11:01 UTC the “Long March – 6” (“Changzheng-6”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited 2 “Beta” small telecommunications satellites.

On July 30, 2021 at 21:00 UTC the “Ariane-5ECA” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited the Brazilian “Star One D2” and the French “Eutelsat Quantum” telecommunications satellites.