by David Todd | Sep 4, 2017 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
The launch arranger Glavkosmos might have denied it, but there is increasing suspicion that something went wrong on the flight of a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat M that launched 72 mainly cubesat-class satellites in July. The main imaging satellite payload Kanopus V-IA was...
by Matt Wilson | Dec 1, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia
An ISS (International Space Station) resupply mission, which lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, has suffered a launch failure. The Progress MS-04 mission, which was being carried by a Soyuz-U rocket, successfully lifted off from Baikonur at 1452 GMT...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 19, 2016 | exploration, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
At 0805 GMT, 19 October 2016, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Site 31/6, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-02 craft containing crew members of Expedition 49/50 to the International Space Station (ISS). The new crew members are two Russian...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 20, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced on 17 September 2016, that the next flight of the Soyuz-MS crew transport craft would be delayed for technical reasons after testing conducted at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. According to TASS, the Russian state news agency,...
by David Todd | Oct 2, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station
The Progress M-029M cargo spacecraft was launched into orbit on top of a Soyuz-U launch vehicle at 1649 GMT on 1 October 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, in Kazakhstan. After using the rapid approach technique, Progress M-029M docked with the rear...
