by David Todd | Sep 13, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft successfully returned to Earth at 0258 GMT on 11 September 2013 with its three crew of US astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogfradov and Alexander Misurkin. After atmospheric re-entry capsule landed after being...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2013 | Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B Fregat launch vehicle successfully launched the Glonass M47 satellite at 0523 GMT on 26 April from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The satellite which had a launch mass of 1415 kg and a design life of seven years will be placed in...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2013 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat M launch vehicle successfully launched seven Globalstar second generation spacecraft on 6 February from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch into low Earth orbit took place at 1604 GMT and about 100 minutes after lift...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2012 | Soyuz
A Russian Soyuz 2.1A/Fregat M rocket successfully launched the Meridian 6 military communications satellite at 1142 GMT on 14 November from the Plesetsk Missile and Space Centre in Northern Russia. The satellite seperated from the rocket’s Fregat M upper stage...
by Dan Thisdell | Feb 2, 2012 | Soyuz, space station
Europe formally put its Galileo satellite navigation project on track to provide a functional service during 2014 and near-global coverage in 2015 with the signing of contracts to build and launch eight more satellites. The €215 million package, signed today in London...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 23, 2010 | ESA, Seradata News, Soyuz
Speaking to Hyperbola at the launch of the UK Space Agency today European Space Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain said that a decision would be made in April about when the first Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a rocket flight from Sinnamary in French...
