At 1444 GMT on 9 August 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin , opened the Poisk module hatch to begin their Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk (Russian EVA-60). Their mission during this EVA was to attach three debris shields to the...
At 2030 GMT on 7 August 2023, a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia carrying the Glonass K2-13 military navigation satellite to its operating position in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Glonass-K2 (Uragan K2) spacecraft...
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat was launched from Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 26 June 2023. Aboard was the VNIIEM-built 3.25 metric ton Meteor M2-3, a phased-arraw radar-equipped weather satellite heading for a 800 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, as the...
Russian communications satellite Express AM-5 (Ekspress-AM 5) has suffered a thermal control loop/heat pipe failure, Russianspaceweb.com reported at 0130 GMT on 3 June. The official report on 5 June said that part of its Ku-band communications payload had to be turned...
On 2114 GMT on 26 May 2023, a Soyuz 2-1a/Fregat launched a Kondor-FKA No 1 satellite for Roscosmos. The 1,050 kg Kondor-FKA No. 1 is used for radar imaging. The launch took place from the Vostochniy spaceport in far eastern Russia. The spacecraft was apparently...
At 1256 GMT on 24 May 2023, a Soyuz-2-1a rocket was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. Aboard was the Progress MS-23 on mission ISS-84P, cargo ship heading with its 2.5 metric ton cargo of food, fuel and other supplies for the International...