by Matt Wilson | Jul 30, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0556 GMT, on 30 July 2019, the MERIDIAN 8 military communications satellite was launched by a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Soyuz rocket utilised a Fregat-M upper stage. The Meridian programme utilises the highly elliptical, Molniya...
by David Todd | Jul 22, 2019 | ESA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
It might have been by design or not, but the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) found itself becoming part of the celebrations of the Apollo 11 landings 50 years ago. With its “unlucky number” 13 (space watchers will...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | ESA, Russia, Science, Seradata News
The Spektr-Rontgen-Gamma X-ray astronomy observatory, better known as Spektr-RG, was launched at 1230 GMT on 13 July 2019, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakstan. The first burn of the Block DM-03 upper stage placed it and Spektr-RG into an initial...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 11, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1714 GMT, on 10 July 2091, an Soyuz 2-1V rocket lifted-off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The mission carried four satellites into LEO, in aid of the Russian military. These four units were later identified as COSMOS (KOSMOS) 2335, 2536, 2537 and...
by David Todd | Jul 5, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1B with Fregat M upper stage successfully launched at 0541 GMT on 5 July 2019 from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far East. The primary payload is the Russian Meteor M 2-2 meteorological satellite, however, the launcher also carried a further 32 small...
by David Todd | May 31, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
A Proton M Breeze M (Briz M) launch vehicle successfully carried the Yamal 601 communications satellite into orbit on its way to a geostationary operating position. However, the final orbit raising did not go as planned after a shutdown of the S-400 apogee kick motor...
