The Russians successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, at 1248 GMT on the 22 March 2022. The launch vehicle was carrying the Meridian M10 satellite which will be used to provide communications over the northern latitudes from...
SpaceX has ridden to the rescue of low Earth orbit satellite operator OneWeb after it lost its Soyuz rides for its satellites during a series of tit-for-tat actions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. OneWeb secured Falcon 9 launches for the satellites required to...
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1555 GMT on 18 March. The craft was carrying the Soyuz MS-21 craft with a crew of Cosmonaut’s Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov and WAS...
While the main effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have already become apparent, most noticeably by the cancellation of the Soyuz launches of OneWeb satellites and probably Galileo as well, and the engine/stage supply issues affecting rockets such as Antares...
The Russian government’s official policy on its invasion of Ukraine – and its lack of success – seems to be “Don’t mention the War!”. Yet despite media restrictions most of Russia’s public realises that something is going on. Most obviously, Western commercial...
On 21 February, Russia’s President Putin ordered troops and tanks into disputed territories of Donetsk and Luhansk for “peacekeeping”, which was regarded by many as an act of war. This became certain when Russian troops and T-72 and T-90 tanks, supported by the...
