Tag: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Live coverage: Crew blasts off on record-setting space mission
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the Expedition 43 crew on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Kelly, Kornienko braced for marathon mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Veteran astronaut Scott Kelly, Soyuz commander Gennady Padalka and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are set to blast off to the International Space Station at 1942:57 GMT (3:42:57 p.m. EDT) Friday. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov Shuttle veteran Scott Kelly first heard about NASA’s plans to send an astronaut to…
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Soyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew
A Soyuz rocket is sitting on a historic launch pad in Kazakhstan after a railroad journey at sunrise Wednesday positioned the crew ferry craft for liftoff Friday with a three-man crew destined for the International Space Station, including two spaceflight veterans who will spend nearly one year in orbit. Riding a specially-made rail car, the…
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Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday
A Soyuz rocket is prepared for launch March 27 from French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Russian launch crews on two continents are putting the final touches on a pair of Soyuz rockets scheduled to blast off less than two hours apart Friday — one carrying a three-man…
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Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite
The Proton rocket with Express AM7 lifted off at 2205 GMT (6:05 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, or 4:05 a.m. local time Thursday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos A Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage deployed a Russian communications satellite in orbit Thursday after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite’s…
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Video: Progress launches and docks
The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
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Photos: Russian supply ship blasts off from Kazakhstan
Russia’s Progress M-26M cargo carrier lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, climbed through clouds and into orbit, then executed an on-time radar-guided docking with the International Space Station six hours later. Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Energia Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos…
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Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station
The Progress M-26M spacecraft lifted off at 1100 GMT (6 a.m. EST; 5 p.m. local time) Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Russia launched a Progress resupply mission Tuesday heading for the International Space Station with more than 6,000 pounds of fuel, supplies and experiments to support the lab’s six-person…
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Progress cargo mission ready for launch to space station
A Russian Progress supply ship packed with 3.1 tons of cargo and propellant to refuel the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress M-26M cargo craft will blast off at 6:00:17 a.m. EST (1100:17 GMT) Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket, which rolled out to Launch Complex…
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Second satellite launched for Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network
The Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1231 GMT (7:31 a.m. EST; 6:31 p.m. local time) Sunday. Credit: Khrunichev A commercial satellite launched Sunday on a Russian Proton rocket successfully deployed in orbit thousands of miles above Earth to join Inmarsat’s new communications network providing high-speed data links between airplanes, ships and…