by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | International Space Station, Russia
Russian cosmonauts Kononenko and Propkopev have made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work that was done to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module when it was discovered that it had a hole drilled through...
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
by David Todd | Dec 3, 2018 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0227 GMT on 30 November 2018, a Russian military launch of three “Rodnik-S” satellites took place aboard a Rockot launch vehicle flying out of Plestetsk. Rodnik class spacecraft are small 225kg “store-forward” communications satellites used...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
by David Todd | Nov 6, 2018 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 2017 GMT on 3 November 2018, a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M successfully put the Russian GLONASS M-57 navigation satellite into orbit after launch from its Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The Glonass/Uragan system, like its US equivalent GPS, is actually a...
by David Todd | Oct 22, 2018 | China, Military space, Russia, Seradata News
Annoyed at apparent breaches in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by Russia, and concerned that the increasingly powerful China was not bound by its treaty limits, US President Donald J. Trump has given notice that USA will withdraw from the treaty. The...
