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The deployment of the US military's largest mobile communication satellite network continues with the 4th of 5 satellites slated to join the fleet now on the iconic launch pad at Cape Canaveral waiting for liftoff. MUOS-4 is the latest member of the under construction fleet of the US Navy's...

The real ISS Soyuz short term visiting crew report! For the first time in 6 years, a short term Soyuz crew is going to visit the ISS! Of course this flight has been given lots of interest from the public already, although the main reason is with one person that (sadly) has given up the seat...

So far, so good and the Briz-M is now ready for its 3rd and 4th burns. :thumbup:

And it's complete.....with a GoPro filming the whole process! :hailprobe:

Well the report above did not include some of the missing important details of what the Chinese satellite does. :rofl: If you have followed most of my Chinese spaceflight launches posts, you would know that the "YG series" are actually reconnaissance satellites - after all, what country would...

Some glorious photos of HTV-5 arriving at the ISS: :hailprobe:

Another Orion parachute test has been done, simulating a failure on 1 of each of the drogue and main parachutes during landing:

Another RS-25 certifying fire test has been done yesterday:

In preparation for the arrival of the visiting crew next week and Sergey Volkov on his third expedition, Soyuz TMA-16M that flew Gennady Padalka and the one year crew is about to get a spin around the ISS from Poisk zenith to Zvezda aft in a couple of minutes right now. Live coverage is now on...

The launch report has been completed. :tiphat: Вывоз РКН Протон-М с КА Inmarsat 5 F3 - YouTube

Oooh, the launch is 100% successful! As the mission director from ISRO said: "The naughty boy (referring to the LH2/LOX upper stage) has been tamed." :cheers:

Hmm....lemme see......how many times did I wrote about the "Nightmare of Baikonur" coming back after being knocked out time after time? :hmm: One...Two...Three...Four...Five... ...oh dear, this is the sixth one already!? I'm now lost for words to say! (certainly not "Welcome back Proton!"...

Another huge stress test is coming up for the Indian spaceflight community as their current flagship rocket stands for another launch that could clear itself from the "Most unreliable rocket in service" name - or dumps itself into even deeper nightmare. The 9th GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite...

Sorry about that....I didn't have the time to miniaturize them. :facepalm:

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 going on sale. Nothing much has changed since then I suppose? ;)

HTV-5 is now just meters away from the ISS with capture scheduled at around 10:30 UTC. Turn on NASA TV if you want to see it! :tiphat:

A question that I have been wondering for some time: is there any way for me to activate the autopilot while in exterior mode? (the later Hyperion does for sure)

I expect nothing short of a full success with the Ariane...and today it provided just that! :10sign: