Now that the European Space Agency (ESA) has accepted that the Ariane 6 will not launch before late 2023, with knock-on effects on its later flights, and bearing in mind the unavailability of Soyuz rockets due to the War in Ukraine, the agency has decided to move two...
The Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoferetti took command of the International Space Station (ISS) from previous commander Oleg Artemiev on 28 September, just before he and his crew mates Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov boarded their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft ready...
While geopolitical events are now seriously effecting US-Russian relations and even Russo-Kazakh ones, it was still business as normal when it comes to crewed launches at the Baikonour Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. At 1354 GMT on 21 September 2022 a Soyuz...
A Russian cargo freighter was successfully launched on a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 0932 GMT on 3 June. The freighter, called Progress MS-20, was put on a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous path with the International Space Station...
A Soyuz 2-1B rocket was launched at 1120 GMT on 7 April 2022 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. It carried the Cosmos 2554 (formally the Lotos S6) spacecraft. which is a part of the Russian Liana programme. This Russian Ministry of Defence satellite is...
While Roscosmos rather cruelly joked that it might leave him in space after US protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the end NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a former US Army Colonel, returned to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on 30 March 2021....
