A small Soyuz 2-1v rocket was successfully launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia at 1738 GMT on 29 March. Aboard was the Cosmos 2525 experimental reconnaissance satellite which uses the EMKA (Experimental Small Space Apparatus) bus design. The...
At 1744 GMT on 21st March 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket rose from its launch pad at the Baikonur launch base near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The rocket was carrying the Soyuz MS-08 (ISS-54S) spacecraft which held three crew who were being carried on their way to the...
The likely life-changing effects of the allegedly Russian-produced Novichok nerve-poison assassination attempt on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, and to a lesser extent on an attending police officer, in the city of Salisbury, Southern...
Space News (Debra Werner) has reported confirmation of an insurance loss for two Corvus BC satellites, which were to be part of the Landmapper constellation of Earth observing satellites. The satellite pair was damaged during the Soyuz launch in July 2017. A payout...
A Russian-built Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) rocket successfully took four O3b communications satellites into Medium Earth orbit (MEO). The launch (VS18), which flew under the auspices of Arianespace, took place from the Sinnamary launch site as part of the space port near...
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying with cargo spacecraft Progress МS-08 successfully lifted off at 0813 GMT from the Baikonur Space Centre near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan on 13 February. The launch to orbit took just eight minutes and 48 seconds. However, the spacecraft faces...
