by Philip Hylands | Jun 7, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 1112 GMT on 6 June 2011 a Soyuz FG rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The crew aboard the Soyuz MS-09 (ISS-55S) spacecraft consisted of Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, NASA Astronaut Dr Serena Aunon-Chancellor and ESA...
by Philip Hylands | Dec 4, 2017 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
China launched the Yaogan 31 (Yaogan Weixing 31) satellite into a Sun Synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) at 0411 GMT, 3 December on a Long March 2D vehicle from launch complex LC43 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite is officially reported to have a...
by Philip Hylands | Dec 4, 2017 | Seradata News
Russia successfully launched the Cosmos 2524 (Kosmos 2524) satellite into low Earth orbit (LEO) at 1043 GMT, 2 December on a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle from Launch site 43 at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Russia. Cosmos 2524 is a Lotos S type satellite which is...
by Philip Hylands | Sep 14, 2016 | commercial launch services
The Russo-Ukrainian firm ISC Kosmotras which had hoped to launch two Iridium satellites on board a Dnepr launch vehicle currently in its silo, will not be able to according to the Russian Isvestia news service. This is because the Russian government, via its Roscosmos...
by Philip Hylands | Mar 14, 2016 | India, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1031 GMT on 10 March 2016, India launched the latest satellite, IRNSS R-1F, in its IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) satellite constellation from the Satish Dahwan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, India. The launch was by a PSLV-XL launch vehicle and...
