Tag: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Milestone Proton launch opens queue of grounded commercial missions
The Proton rocket launched at 0016 GMT Monday (7:16 p.m. EST Sunday) with the Yamal 401 communications satellite. Credit: ILS A Russian communications satellite lifted off from a snow-covered launch pad in Kazakhstan on Monday, marking the 400th flight of a Proton rocket and the launcher’s first commercial mission in 10 months. The Yamal 401…
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Live coverage: 400th Proton rocket takes off with Russian satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an International Launch Services Proton rocket with the Yamal 401 communications satellite for Gazprom Space Systems. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Three-person crew docks with space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated after docking Five hours and 48 minutes after a sky-lighting launch from Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz ferry craft carrying a crew of three representing Russia, the United States and Italy, glided to a smooth docking at the International Space Station late Sunday, boosting the lab’s…
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Russians launch Progress supply ship to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated after successful docking A Russian Progress supply ship loaded with nearly 5,800 pounds of supplies and equipment needed aboard the International Space Station takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Image: NASA TV. Nine hours after a spectacular launch failure that destroyed a U.S.…
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Russian supply ship poised for launch Wednesday
A Soyuz 2-1a rocket was rolled to the launch pad Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos Continuing a busy week of comings and goings at the International Space Station, a Russian Progress supply ship is set for liftoff Wednesday from Kazakhstan with nearly 5,200 pounds of food, fuel and supplies for the…
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Proton rocket blasts off with Russian telecom satellite
File photo of a Proton rocket launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s Express AM6 communications satellite lifted off aboard a Proton rocket Tuesday and reached its targeted geostationary transfer orbit after a nine-hour climb thousands of miles above Earth. Powered by six RD-276 engines generating nearly 2.5 million pounds of thrust,…