Tag: Plesetsk Cosmodrome

  • Russia adds new satellite to Glonass navigation fleet

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    Video credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia launched a fresh satellite for the Glonass network Wednesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, replenishing a fleet of positioning and timing stations used around the world for navigation services. The Glonass M navigation satellite lifted off on top of a Soyuz-2.1b booster at 0854 GMT (3:54 a.m. EST) from…

  • Russia launches space surveillance satellite

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Nov. 26 with video and orbital elements.  A modified Soyuz rocket delivered a top secret Russian military payload into orbit Monday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, according to the country’s defense ministry. The mission lifted off from the Site 43 launch complex at Plesetsk at 1752 GMT (12:52 p.m. EST;…

  • Russia launches missile warning satellite

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    A Russian military satellite designed to detect missile launches arrived in orbit Thursday following a successful liftoff aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Russian Defense Ministry said a Soyuz-2.1b rocket, topped with a Fregat upper stage, launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 0746 GMT (3:46 a.m. EDT) Thursday carrying…

  • Russian military satellite orbited by Rockot launcher

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    A geodetic surveying satellite for the Russian military successfully launched Friday aboard a Rockot booster — a modified ballistic missile — from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher lifted off at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT; 5 p.m. Moscow time) Friday from Plesetsk, according to a statement released by Roscosmos, the Russian space…

  • Russia launches military communications satellite

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    A Soyuz-2.1a booster lifts off Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Russian military Meridian communications satellite. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian military satellite rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a Soyuz launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to provide communications coverage over Russia’s polar regions. The Meridian relay satellite lifted off at 0556 GMT (1:56…

  • Four Russian military satellites launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome

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    Four unidentified Russian military satellites rode a modified Soyuz booster into orbit Wednesday from a remote space base north of Moscow. The satellites lifted off at 1714 GMT (1:14 p.m. EDT) Wednesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military launch base around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The launch occurred at 8:14 p.m. Moscow…

  • Rockot launches Russian military satellites

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    Rockot lifts off Friday with three Rodnik satellites. Credit: Khrunichev A Rockot booster and Breeze upper stage delivered three Russian military communications satellites to orbit Friday after a launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) rocket fired out of a launcher tube at 0227 GMT Friday…

  • Glonass navigation satellite in orbit after Soyuz launch

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    A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off Saturday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A new satellite joined Russia’s Glonass navigation fleet Saturday with a successful launch on top of a Soyuz rocket into an orbit nearly 12,000 miles above Earth. The Glonass M navigation satellite lifted off aboard a Soyuz-2.1b…

  • Russia launches first Soyuz rocket since Oct. 11 accident

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    A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off at 0015 GMT Thursday (8:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Soyuz rocket delivered a Russian military intelligence satellite to orbit Thursday after lift off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s far northern Arkhangelsk region, the first flight of a…

  • Navigation satellite launched to join Russia’s Glonass network

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    A new Russian navigation satellite lifted off Saturday on top of a Soyuz rocket, riding the three-stage booster and a Fregat upper stage into orbit to supplement the country’s Glonass network providing precise global positioning and timing services. The Glonass-M navigation craft, built by ISS Reshetnev in Zheleznogorsk, Russia, lifted off at 2146 GMT (5:46…