Tag: European Space Agency
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Q&A with Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace
Become a member to access Spaceflight Now’s bonus content, including more Q&As like this one with space industry leaders, a video archive and other extras. File photo of Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s chairman and CEO. Credit: European Commission Arianespace chief executive Stéphane Israël recently discussed his company’s outlook with Spaceflight Now, touching on the light-class Vega…
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Live coverage: Russian-American-British crew launches toward space station
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Watch a replay of Soyuz crew’s blastoff from Kazakhstan
Three crewmen from Russia, the United States and Great Britain blasted off toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, rocketing into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in pursuit of the orbiting research lab. This video from Roscosmos — the Russian space agency — shows the Soyuz rocket carrying the three-man crew launching at 1103 GMT…
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Three crew members trek from Earth to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft lifted off at 1103:09 GMT (6:03 a.m. EST; 5:03 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky A Russian Soyuz spacecraft streaked into space and chased down the International Space Station Tuesday, but a problem with the ferry ship’s automated…
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Soyuz, with crew of three, set for launch to station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake pose with their Sokol spacesuits during launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov Four days after a Soyuz ferry craft brought three space station fliers down to a…
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Photos: Crew transport rolled out at Baikonur
Tugged along a historic route leading to the launch pad where Yuri Gagarin took off 1961 to become the first person in space, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of its assembly hangar in Kazakhstan and stood up on its launch mount Sunday. The photos below show the rollout at dawn, two days before the Soyuz…
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Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch
One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…
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Soyuz TMA-19M launch-to-docking timeline
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Based upon an on-time launch at 1103:10 GMT (6:03:10 a.m. EST) Tuesday, this is the timeline for the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft through its countdown, liftoff and docking with the International Space Station. Eastern Standard Time is GMT-5. TUESDAY, DEC. 15, 2015 12:18:10 AM…05…45…00…Batteries installed in booster 12:48:10 AM…05…15…00…Crew…
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Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff
Europe’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational wave detection mission, blasted off from French Guiana early Thursday aboard a nearly 100-foot-tall (30-meter) Vega rocket. After lifting off at 0404 GMT Thursday (1:04 a.m. French Guiana time; 11:04 p.m. EDT Wednesday), the four-stage Vega booster…
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Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space station
British astronaut Tim Peake, shown here at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, says he’ll run a marathon distance on the International Space Station’s T2 treadmill while thousands of others run the London Marathon on April 24. (Credit: ESA) British astronaut Tim Peake says he’ll follow in the footsteps of NASA’s Sunita Williams by…