by David Todd | Jan 3, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Satellites, Soyuz
There were four launches made over the Christmas period. At 1642 GMT on 20 December, a Chinese Long March 3B/E launch vehicle successfully launched the Tupac Katari communications spacecraft for teh Bolivian Space Agency from China’s Xichang launch site. This...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station
An unmanned Russian Progress M-021M (ISS-53P) cargo spacecraft/freighter has been launched into orbit on a Soyuz U launch vehicle on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place at 2053 GMT on 25 November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
by David Todd | Nov 14, 2013 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
Russian military authorities have revealed that in an incident at the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia on 9 November 2013, two military officers were killed attempting to rescue a soldier who had himself been overcome with nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser fumes in a...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The manned Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and US NASA astronaut, Karen Nyberg and an Olympic torch safely back to Earth, touching down using parachutes and braking rockets at 0249 GMT on 11...
by David Todd | Nov 7, 2013 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz, space station
At 0414 GMT Launch on 7 November, Soyuz TMA-011M (on flight ISS-37S) was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) which had passed over the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan five...
by David Todd | Sep 30, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The Soyuz TMA-010M spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle at 2058 GMT on 25 September 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (near Tyuratam) in Kazakhstan with a crew consisting of NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey...
