by Philip Hylands | Mar 1, 2021 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Soyuz
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat M vehicle carrying the Arktika-M 1 satellite into a highly inclined elongated Molniya orbit at 0655 GMT on 28 February 2021. The Arktika-M 1 satellite was built by NPO Lavotchkin for the Roshydromet (Russian Weather...
by David Todd | Feb 15, 2021 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Soyuz
The Progress MS-16 cargo craft was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0445 GMT on 15 February. The spacecraft was carrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The craft used the standard two day rendezvous...
by David Todd | Feb 3, 2021 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites
In snowy conditions, a Russian Soyuz 2-1b has launched the Lotos-S 5 electronic intelligence satellite into low Earth orbit at 2045 GMT on 2 February from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The satellite, which has now been given the military codename Cosmos...
by David Todd | Dec 14, 2020 | Launches, Russia, Seradata News
Russia’s new Angara A5 launch vehicle design returned to operation after a near six year wait. Lift off occurred at 0550 GMT on 14 December 2020 from Plesetsk. After an initial parking orbit and injection into a transfer orbit, the spacecraft dummy IPM 2 (GVM 2) had a...
by David Todd | Dec 3, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites
At 0114 GMT on 3 December 2020 a Russian Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat launch vehicle was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The three main payloads were Gonets-M store forward communications satellites. There was one other satellite aboard – a...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchcov – the two Sergeys – made an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) – more commonly known as a spacewalk, from the airlock on the Poisk module on the International Space Station on 18 November 2020....
