Events

Tiangong EVA-1

Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo performed work on the Tianhe mechanical arm and installed equipment outside the station.

Tiangong Space Station

NASA Mars 2020 Ingenuity Ninth Flight

The 9th flight on Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was a success. Unlike with previous flights, this time Ingenuity flew over not the safe flat grounds, but over a sandy terrain called "Séítah". This kind of area is difficult, if not dangerous, for a rover to wheel through However, it can be easily surveyed from air. This proves that rover-helicopter combo can expand science value of the mission by covering more diverse areas which would not be possible to explore with a rover alone.

Airfield E, Jezero crater, Mars

CRS-22 Dragon Undocking

The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of its reentry, splashdown and recovery.

International Space Station

NS-16 Pre-Launch Mission Briefing

Blue Origin will host a pre-launch mission briefing live from Launch Site One in West Texas. Blue Origin will share details about their first crewed suborbital flight, including updates on vehicle readiness, flight and safety preparedness, and astronaut training.

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site

Super Heavy B3 Static Fire

SpaceX will be conducting testing potentially including a static fire test of the Super Heavy Booster 3 at its Starbase launch site in Boca Chica, TX. We will be monitoring social media and live feeds to provide periodic updates.

Boca Chica, Texas

NS-16 Post-Flight Press Conference

Blue Origin will host a press conference with New Shepard’s first astronaut crew which has successfully completed their first suborbital flight on July 20.

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site

"Endeavour" Crew Dragon Relocation

NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will relocate the Crew Dragon spacecraft to IDA-3 located at the zenith port of the Harmony module. The relocation will free Harmony’s forward port for the docking of Crew-3, set to carry four crew members to the station in the fall of 2021.

International Space Station

NASA Mars 2020 Ingenuity Tenth Flight

With this flight Ingenuity crossed the 1-mile mark of total flown distance. This flight took the helicopter over a rocky area "Raised Ridges". The area is of interest to the scientists and is being considered to be visited by Perseverance rover in the future. The entire flight lasted 165.4 seconds and reached a maximum altitude of 12 meters.

Airfield F, Jezero crater, Mars

Progress MS-16 & Pirs Undocking

The Progress MS-16 spacecraft will undock from the Zvezda module of the International Space Station, bringing with it the Pirs airlock in order to free a docking port for the Nauka module. It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

International Space Station

Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Pre-Launch News Conference

NASA and Boeing will conduct a pre-launch news conference for the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) of Boeing’s Starliner commercial crew spacecraft.

Kennedy Space Center

MLM Nauka Docking

The new MLM Nauka module successfully docked to the Zvezda module of the International Space Station.

International Space Station

NASA Mars 2020 Ingenuity 11th Flight

This was the 11th flight for the Ingenuity helicopter. It was primarily a transfer flight, taking Ingenuity to a new area which became a starting point for the upcoming reconnaissance flight over a scientifically interesting region called "South Séítah".

Airfield G, Jezero crater, Mars

RS-25 Engine Test

"RS-25 engine testing for future #Artemis missions continues TODAY! Tune in to a Facebook Live event tentatively scheduled between 1:30-3:30 p.m. CDT!" - NASA

NASA's Stennis Space Center

Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby

Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, flew by Venus on 9 August with a closest approach of 7995 km at 04:42 UTC. Throughout its mission it makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Venus

Cygnus NG-16 Pre-Launch News Conference

NASA and Northrop Grumman representatives will share details about upcoming resupply mission of Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 spacecraft.

BepiColombo Venus Flyby

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission made a close approach of Venus on 10 August at 13:51 UTC at a distance of approximately 552 km. Gravity assist flybys are needed to set the spacecraft on course for Mercury orbit.

Venus

NG-16 Cygnus Berthing

NASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Northrop Grumman's NG-16 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.

International Space Station

Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Update

NASA and Boeing are continuing discussions on the status of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, and will host a joint media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 13, to discuss the second uncrewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

NASA Mars 2020 Ingenuity 12th Flight

Flight 12 of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter took it toward "South Séítah" region to image the terrain and then back to the starting point at Airfiel H.

Airfield H, Jezero crater, Mars

CSS EVA-2

Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming have been installing a new pump set and deployed an external camera platform outside the station.

Tianhe Core Module, China Space Station