Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:40 p.m. EDT. During the seven-hour and one minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts began the replacement of nickel-hydrogen batteries with newer, more powerful lithium-ion batteries on the far end of the station’s port truss.
10/02/2019, 04:20NASA is negotiating new places on the "Union" ...Now the last place NASA acquired is on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, which will start on March 20, 2020. It will provide the representative of the American side with a stay on the ISS until the fall of 2020....It is expected that the first American spacecraft (Crew Dragon from SpaceX or Starliner from Boeing) with a crew can fly to the ISS in May 2020.
10/03/2019, 14:50The crew of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft returned from the ISS ...The next expedition will go into space from Baikonur on April 15, 2020. Astronauts Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin (Russia) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (Japan) will fly on Soyuz MS-16 to the ISS.
https://tass.com/science/1081437"Next year, we will have one launch with two [Russian cosmonauts] and then there will be three of them," Krikalev said, noting that these launches would take place in spring (April or March) and in autumn.
NET Nov. 2 • Antares • NG-12Launch time: Approx. 1350 GMT (9:50 a.m. EDT)Launch site: Pad 0A, Wallops Island, Virginia
If this is the case, the ball would move to NASA's court to review all of the company's paperwork and procedures and sign off on a crewed mission. One source said it was possible this could be done in time to support a flight early in the spring of 2020
November 1, Friday1 p.m. – Coverage of the release of the JAXA HTV-8 “Kounotori” cargo craft from the International Space Station; release scheduled at 1:20 p.m. EDT (All Channels)
November 2, Saturday9:30 a.m. – Coverage of the Launch of the Northrop Grumman NG-12 Cygnus Cargo Craft Mission to the International Space Station; launch scheduled at 9:59 a.m. EDT – Johnson Space Center via Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia (All Channels)
November 4, Monday4:15 a.m. – Coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the Northrop Grumman NG-12 Cygnus cargo craft at the International Space Station; capture scheduled at 5:45 a.m. EST (All Channels)
Specialist of RSC Energia Sergey Kireevichev informed Alexander Skvortsov that his spacewalk from the ISS, along with Oleg Skripochka, planned for October 31, will be postponed to January 2020.
The first launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with the International Space Station crew, scheduled for March 20, can be postponed to April 9, a source in the space rocket told RIA Novosti.
"The transfer of the launch of the Soyuz MS-16 manned spacecraft on the Soyuz-2.1a rocket from March 20 to April 9, 2020, is being considered," the agency’s interlocutor said, without specifying the reasons for the delay.
The crew of the Soyuz MS-16 includes Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy.
https://www.craigtechinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PRESS-RELEASE-October-launch-6.3.19.pdfQuoteCraig Technologies Aerospace Solutions (Craig) is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of CraigX, their on-orbit external experimental facility hosted on the NanoRacks International Space Station External Platform (NREP). The mission is scheduled to launch in October 2019 on the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket mission NG-12 under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) contract. QuoteIn addition to CraigX, NG-12 will be carrying the DoD Space Test Satellite-4 (STPSat-4) which is made up of five distinct experiments from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), and the U.S. Navy. These experiments include Radio Frequency (RF) Module Tiles, the Modular Array Technology for Reconfigurable Spacecraft (MATRS) the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA), Navy Interferometric Star Tracker Experiment (NISTEx), and Nanosat Tracking Experiment (NTE). STPSat-4 will be launched from the ISS using the Space Stations Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems (SSIKLOPS).
Craig Technologies Aerospace Solutions (Craig) is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of CraigX, their on-orbit external experimental facility hosted on the NanoRacks International Space Station External Platform (NREP). The mission is scheduled to launch in October 2019 on the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket mission NG-12 under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) contract.
In addition to CraigX, NG-12 will be carrying the DoD Space Test Satellite-4 (STPSat-4) which is made up of five distinct experiments from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), and the U.S. Navy. These experiments include Radio Frequency (RF) Module Tiles, the Modular Array Technology for Reconfigurable Spacecraft (MATRS) the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA), Navy Interferometric Star Tracker Experiment (NISTEx), and Nanosat Tracking Experiment (NTE). STPSat-4 will be launched from the ISS using the Space Stations Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems (SSIKLOPS).
"The landing of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft can be postponed from March 30 to April 17, 2020," the agency’s interlocutor said, without specifying the reasons for the delay.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station late this week to replace a power controller that failed during the weekend. The spacewalk, the first ever that will be conducted by two women, is planned for Thursday or Friday.Station managers decided to postpone previously planned spacewalks that had been set to install new batteries this week and next in order to replace the faulty power unit, called a Battery Charge/Discharge Unit (BCDU).
October 17, Thursday 6:30 a.m. – Coverage of International Space Station Expedition 61 U.S. Spacewalk #58 to Replace a Battery Charge/Discharge Unit (Koch and Meir); spacewalk begins at 7:50 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
Jeff Foust @jeff_foustTalked with Shireman after the briefing about the change in ISS spacewalk plans. He said NASA will likely pause after this weeks’s battery charger replacement for a week or two to monitor things before resuming the battery swaps.
October 18, Friday6:30 a.m. – Coverage of International Space Station Expedition 61 U.S. Spacewalk #58 to Replace a Battery Charge/Discharge Unit (Koch and Meir); spacewalk begins at 7:50 a.m. EDT (Public Channel)
