Space News for Sunday, September 17, 2023

New ISS crew arrives on Soyuz

Original Publication Date: 2023-09-17 05:33

Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft docked with the station at 2:53 p.m. Eastern. The spacecraft brought to the station two Roscosmos cosmonauts. The launch was the fifth for Kononenko and first for Chub and O’Hara.

Es’hailSat launches Playout and Media services, showcases satellites and new teleport at at IBC – SatNews

Original Publication Date: 2023-09-16 00:00

Es’hailSat, a platform for the broadcast, content delivery, digital media and satellite sectors, will be exhibiting at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. The company will be showcasing the launch of their Playout and Media services together with their satellites Es’hail-1, Es’hails-2 and their state-of-the-art 50,000 sqm teleport in Doha.

NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search

The Pilbara is the perfect classroom for teams to study stromatolites that have withstood the test of time and scientific rigor. The group investigated how the environment in which these signs of ancient life were found could have been conducive or unfavorable to biology taking shape.

Soyuz MS-24 docks after first Russian crewed launch in a year

Original Publication Date: 2023-09-15 12:55

Soyuz MS-24 mission launched from Site 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, flying a crew of three to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub as well as NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara launched on Friday, Sept. 15, at 15:44 UTC, with a docking to ISS just over three hours later at 18:56 UTC. The Soyuz MS-24 crewmembers will join the Crew-7 astronauts as members of the new expedition as per the usual process of changing flight increments aboard the Station.