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...
There was a sense of déjà vu for the crew of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft as it was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1914 GMT on 14 March. Or at least it was for two of the three crew. For Cosmonaut...
A Soyuz ST-B with a Fregat M upper stage successfully launched OneWeb 0006-0012 satellites at 2137 GMT on 27 February. The launch took place from the Sinnamary Launch Centre, near Kourou in French Guiana. The satellites will form part of the OneWeb constellation which...
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...
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...
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...
