by David Todd | Jan 30, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
The Roscosmos unmanned Progress MS-09 cargo freighter which has been attached to the International Space Station (ISS) since July has now left it. It undocked from the ISS Pirs module at 1255 GMT on 25 January. It made a de-orbit burn at 1608 GMT and re-entered over...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While it might be more than two years past its “use-by” date – i.e. its five-year minimum design life – Russia has keenly felt the loss of its in-orbit radio astronomy telescope, Spektr-R (Radioastron). The spacecraft, built by NPO Lavotchkin to detect gamma and X-ray...
by David Todd | Jan 8, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia
While it may have been a calculated move to try and force international acceptance for his long time ally, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s decision to appoint him as head of the space agency/industrial complex Roscosmos...
by David Todd | Dec 31, 2018 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat rocket was launched at 0207 GMT from the Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 27 December. On board were a variety of spacecraft. The “main payloads” carried were two 490kg Kanopus spacecraft (Kanopus V5 and V6) which are...
by David Todd | Dec 21, 2018 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites
A Proton M Breeze M (Phase 4) rocket successfully launched Cosmos 2533 (Kosmos 2533) at 0020 GMT on 21 December 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Russian military communications satellite, aka Blagovest 3, was apparently...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | International Space Station, Russia
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Propkopev made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module, which had had a hole apparently accidently drilled through it...
