While Soyuz rockets are more usually used to being used to launch spacecraft and satellites to low and medium Earth orbits, the most recent flight from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou was unusually launching a satellite on its way to a geostationary orbit. At...
At 0713 GMT on 20 April 2017, a Soyuz FG rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch was carrying the Soyuz MS-04 crewed spacecraft travelling to the International Space Station. However, due to a decision by Roscosmos,...
A crew of three was safely landed back onto Kazakh territory on Earth after their respective stays on the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft undocked from the ISS’s Poisk module at 0757 GMT on 10 April, and having detached...
At 0558 GMT on 22 February 2017, a Soyuz-U rocket rose into the sky from the ice covered fields at its Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. It was the last mission the venerable Soyuz-U variant would fly. Aboard was a Progress MS-05 cargo craft on its way to deliver...
In what is rapidly becoming a farcical situation within the NASA commercial crew programme, SpaceX has now admitted that its commercial crew capsule, “Crew Dragon” (aka Dragon V2), will have its first flight delayed from May 2017 until November. This flight will be...
A Soyuz FG rocket launched itself and a manned Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch took place at 2020 GMT on 17 November 2016. Aboard Soyuz MS-03 were three crew: the Roskosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, the ESA...
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