Tag: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Soyuz booster moved to launch pad to loft two-man crew
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled to its launch pad in Kazakhstan early Monday aboard a specially-designed rail car, three days before sending a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station. The three-stage launcher emerged from the Soyuz integration building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome just before sunrise Monday for the journey to Launch…
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Soyuz blasts off on Russian resupply run to International Space Station
A Soyuz-U rocket took off Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the way to the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian Soyuz booster blasted off from a snow-covered launch pad in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with nearly 6,000 pounds of fuel, water and supplies for the International Space Station. The launch occurred just…
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Soyuz booster rolls out for launch with space station supply freighter
A Soyuz rocket and Progress supply ship packed with nearly 3 tons of cargo, provisions and fuel for the International Space Station rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. The Progress MS-05 cargo freighter is set for liftoff Wednesday at 0558:33 GMT (12:58:33 a.m. EST; 11:58:33 a.m. Baikonur…
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Russia recalls rocket engines, grounding Proton missions until spring
File photo of a Proton rocket rolling out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja The Russian government is investigating flaws found in Proton rocket engines, ordering all suspect components to be replaced before the heavy-lift booster can resume launches and promising penalties for those responsible for allowing substandard…
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Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew’s rocket
File photo of a Soyuz rocket’s RD-0110 engine. Credit: Energia Russian engineers will replace rocket engines on two Soyuz rockets assigned to send a batch of supplies and the next crew to the International Space Station after an investigation revealed foreign objects or a manufacturing defect led to the crash of a Progress cargo craft…
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Proton rocket’s next flight moved back to next year
Proton and EchoStar 21 launch team members sign the rocket’s payload fairing in this image tweeted by International Launch Services on Dec. 21. Credit: ILS The first launch of a Russian Proton rocket since June has been delayed until at least January to conduct additional checks on the three-stage booster and its Breeze M upper…
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Russian space station cargo freighter lost on launch
Updated at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) Thursday. Russian mission control said Thursday an unpiloted Progress space station supply ship carrying nearly 5,400 pounds of rocket fuel, food, water and a new spacesuit burned up in Earth’s atmosphere shortly after it blasted off from Kazakhstan, and evidence points to a problem with the third stage of the…
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Russian Progress cargo capsule arrives at launch pad
Russia’s next Progress cargo freighter rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday in a final move before blasting off Thursday at the tip of a Soyuz rocket to resupply and refuel the International Space Station. The Progress MS-04 spacecraft and its Soyuz-U booster emerged from an assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome…
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Video: Soyuz launches three-person international crew
The Russian Soyuz MS-03 crew transport spacecraft is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with three passengers on a two-day trek to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will join the station’s existing three-person Expedition 50 crew.
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Photos: Station crew suits up, blasts off on Soyuz rocket
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, French-born European Space Agency flight engineer Thomas Pesquet and veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson put on their Sokol spacesuits, boarded their Soyuz capsule and blasted into orbit Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio began a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST)…