by David Todd | Dec 31, 2018 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat rocket was launched at 0207 GMT from the Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 27 December. On board were a variety of spacecraft. The “main payloads” carried were two 490kg Kanopus spacecraft (Kanopus V5 and V6) which are...
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
by David Todd | Nov 8, 2018 | ESA, Seradata News, Soyuz
In the third successful launch since the Soyuz FG non-fatal launch failure of the Soyuz MS-10 crewed launch, a Soyuz ST-B with an Fregat M successfully lifted off from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. Launch time was at 0047 GMT on 7 November....
by David Todd | Oct 11, 2018 | International Space Station, NASA, Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the crewed Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, which was launched at 0840 GMT on 11 October 2018 from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, has suffered a fault during its climb into orbit and failed to achieve orbital velocity. A...
by David Todd | Aug 30, 2018 | International Space Station, Soyuz
NASA has reported that the crew aboard the International Space Station have had to to patch an air leak after an a microfracture hole was discovered on one of the Soyuz transportation craft that carried three of them to the station. While noticeable, the pressure...
