Tag: European Space Agency

  • Soyuz, with crew of three, set for launch to station

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    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…

  • Photos: Crew transport rolled out at Baikonur

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    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…

  • Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch

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    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…

  • Soyuz TMA-19M launch-to-docking timeline

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    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…

  • Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff

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    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…

  • Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space station

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    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…

  • LISA Pathfinder blasts off to blaze a trail for relativity’s biggest test

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    The LISA Pathfinder probe lifts off from the European Space Agency’s spaceport in Kourou. (ESA photo) The LISA Pathfinder probe is heading for a vantage point a million miles from Earth to help look for gravitational waves and add a missing piece to the evidence for general relativity. The European Space Agency said an Italian-built Vega rocket sent…

  • Live coverage: Vega rocket launches with LISA Pathfinder

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket rocket with the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Vega/LISA Pathfinder launch timeline

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    Follow the major events during the launch of Europe’s LISA Pathfinder gravitational probe testbed, from liftoff of its Vega rocket booster from French Guiana through deployment into its initial orbit. Credit: Arianespace T+00:00:00 – Liftoff The Vega rocket’s first stage P80 solid rocket motor ignites and powers the 98-foot-tall booster off the launch pad 0.3…

  • Finely-crafted experimental space probe ready for launch

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    Updated after launch postponement. Artist’s concept of the LISA Pathfinder probe. Credit: ESA KOUROU, French Guiana — A modest European-built spacecraft tuned to test the delicate, cutting edge technologies required to detect gravitational waves, a measurement that scientists say could yield unforeseen discoveries about the universe, is awaiting liftoff aboard a solid-fueled Vega rocket this…