On August 19, 2015 at 11:50 UTC the Japanese HTV-5 (H-2 Transfer Vehicle) unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Tanegashima Cosmodrome situated at the island located 115 km south of Kyushu. Kyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. The spacecraft was orbited by the Japanese H-2B rocket-carrier. The mission is Japan's fifth cargo delivery flight to the International Space station. The HTV 5 mission is also named Kounotori 5. Kounotori is the Japanese word for white stork. The spacecraft is to deliver about 6000 kilograms of cargo to the station’s crew.
On August 14, 2015 at 10:18 UTC the “Progress M-26M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian “Zvezda” (Star) module of the International Space Station. Several hours later the “Progress M-26M” spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 14:17 UTC.
On August 10, 2015 at 14:17 UTC two Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko began their spacewalk. The cosmonauts had 10 objectives, including installation of padded handrails to make future EVAs easier; installation of fasteners to hold antenna covers in place; the replacement of one antenna; inspections of external experiments and the retrieval of a plasma physics experiment package. They also cleaned one of Zvezda’s windows to remove residue deposited by thruster firings and collected similar residue samples from a solar array panel and the area around vents used by a Russian oxygen generator and carbon dioxide scrubber. There were no problems of any significance and the spacewalkers ran ahead of schedule most of the day. The cosmonauts spent 5 hours and 34 minutes outside the International Space Station. This was the 188th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since cons
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On July 23, 2015 at 02:45 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-17M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Rassvet” (MIM-1) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime.
The Soyuz TMA-17M delivered three new members of Expedition 44 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (油井 亀美也) and American astronaut Kjell Lindgren. The new comers joined current ISS expedition members – Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko as well as American astronaut Scott Kelly to form Expedition 44 crew of 6 members.
On July 23, 2015 at 00:02 UTC (on July 22 at 21:02 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-17M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (center); flight-engineer, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (油井 亀美也) (right); flight-engineer, American astronaut Kjell Lindgren (left).
On July 13, 2015 at 16:40 UTC the “Flock-1E-1” and “Flock-1E-2” CubeSat satellites were launched from the International Space Station. The satellites were delivered to the ISS by the “Dragon” (SpX-6 (CRS-6) flight) unmanned supply spacecraft on April 17, 2015.
On July 05, 2015 at 07:11 UTC the Russian “Progress M-28M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Pirs” (Pier) module. The spacecraft carried 2381 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew. The successful launch, rendezvous and docking came after back-to-back resupply failures. The “Progress M-27M” launched on April 28 spun out of control shortly after reaching orbit and one week ago, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated during ascent, destroying the “Dragon” (CRS-7 flight) unmanned supply spacecraft loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment.
On July 03, 2015 at 07:55 UTC the “Progress M-28M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier. It is the first successful launch of a Progress cargo ship after an April failure. The spacecraft is loaded with about 2300 kilograms of supplies and equipment needed to replenish stockpiles aboard the International Space Station.
On June 28, 2015 at 14:21 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was to be launched from the Cape Canaveral US Air Force Station in Florida. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX was to launch its "Dragon” (CRS-7 flight) unmanned spacecraft on a seventh cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. In about 3 minutes after lift off the rocket exploded. It was the ninth flight for SpaceX's unmanned “Dragon” cargo spacecraft and the seventh SpaceX operational mission contracted to NASA under a Commercial Resupply Services contract.
On June 11 at 13:43 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-15M” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of 148 kilometers south-east from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 43 – Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti and American astronaut Terry Virts.
They spent in space 199 days, 16 hours, 42 minutes.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka and Mikhai
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