by David Todd | Oct 7, 2019 | Soyuz
At 0736 GMT on 3 October 2019, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft (aka ISS-58S) undocked with the ISS carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, US astronaut Nick Hague and the first UAE astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori aboard. Later the same day, the spacecraft made a...
by David Todd | Sep 16, 2019 | Seradata News, Soyuz, Technology
Having been undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), the unmanned, albeit with the Skybot F-850 robot aboard, Soyuz MS-14 descent module landed in rural Kazakhstan at 2132 GMT on 6 September 2019. The spacecraft had originally had trouble docking with the...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Soyuz
At 0338 GMT on 22 August 2019, a Soyuz 2.1a rocket successully launched the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft into orbit from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. While such Soyuz MS spacecraft usually carry cosmonauts and astronauts, this flight had no humans...
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 28, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
At 0623 GMT on 27 May 2019, a Soyuz 2.1B/Fregat M was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. On board the launch was a Glonass M55S (Cosmos 2534) satellite as part of the Glonass navigation satellite constellation on its way to its operating...
by David Todd | Apr 5, 2019 | International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
A Progress 2.1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1101 GMT on 4 April. Aboard was the Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft which followed a “very fast” approach set of manoeuvres ahead of its docking with the...
