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...
On 3 May 2023 at 2000 GMT, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began another spacewalk. Their mission objective was to relocate an experiment airlock from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module. Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev worked from inside...
