The latest NASA Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
The launch of a Japanese HTV cargo ship to the ISS this morning mentioned in the above video was also seen by astronauts on the station:
External station cameras captured the launch of Japan’s H-IIB rocket as it orbited over the Tanegashima Space Center today. pic.twitter.com/uVXqEQVCet
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) December 9, 2016
This week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground video about activities related to the Int. Space Station includes a report on the loss of Russian Progress cargo vessel during its launch on Thursday:
Here is a video of the Soyuz rocket launch of the Progress resupply ship. It failed about 6 minutes after the liftoff due apparently to a problem with the third stage.
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The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station including the station crew’s plans for Thanksgiving:
And here is a Thanksgiving video card from NASA:
Here is the latest Space To Ground report from NASA on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Lots of other space activities in the past week or so. A Soyuz spacecraft with three new crewmembers for the ISS (Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency) arrived at the station today following their launch on Thursday from Kazakhstan: New Trio Arrives to Join Expedition 50 Crew | Space Station
Here is a video of the launch of the Soyuz:
[ Update: Here are videos of the arrival of the Soyuz at the ISS and of the Soyuz crew coming into the station:
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Today there was also a launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral with the new generation weather satellite GOES-R:
Update: There was also a launch on Nov. 17th of an Arianespace Ariane V rocket from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou in French Guiana with 4 Galileo navigation satellites:
Here is this week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Here is a sampling of the videos of meteors as seen from the ISS. Find more at Japan’s Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC):
And some brilliant lightning flashes:
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