Tag: Plesetsk Cosmodrome

  • New Russian military satellite declared lost

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    Russia’s Soyuz 2-1v rocket blasted off at 1409 GMT (9:09 a.m. EST) Saturday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian defense payload built to monitor maritime activity, and possibly track the movements of submarines, is stuck to the upper stage of its rocket after launching Saturday from the…

  • Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocket

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    A Russian satellite reportedly designed to demonstrate sensors to track enemy submarines and a passive secondary spacecraft to help calibrate ground-based military radars lifted off Saturday aboard a modified Soyuz rocket, but one of the payloads apparently failed to deploy from the launcher’s upper stage, according to Russian media. The Soyuz 2-1v rocket launched at…

  • First satellite launched for Russia’s new missile warning network

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    Russia launched an early warning satellite Tuesday, deploying the first in a new fleet of military satellites to detect missile launches heading for Russian territory. The secretive payload blasted off at 0634 GMT (1:34 a.m. EST) aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in northern Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, according to a…

  • Modified missile launches three Russian satellites

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    Three Russian military satellites arrived in orbit Wednesday after taking off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Rockot launch vehicle, a decommissioned ballistic missile modified for space applications. The Rockot launcher lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility about 500 miles north of Moscow, at 2200 GMT (6 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, according to…

  • Russian military satellite launched from Plesetsk

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    The Soyuz rocket lifted off at 1644 GMT (12:44 p.m. EDT) from the Plesestsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Russian Defense Ministry A new Russian military global surveillance platform is orbiting Earth after launching from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Tuesday. The defense payload soared into space on top of a Soyuz rocket, which lifted off…

  • Soyuz rocket returns to flight with military launch

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    A Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasts off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1524 GMT (11:24 a.m. EDT). Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia successfully launched a Kobalt-type optical reconnaissance satellite Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket, marking the workhorse booster’s first flight since the failure of a resupply launch to the International Space Station in April. The three-stage…

  • Rockot launcher deploys Russian data relay satellites

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    Three small satellites launched from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmdorome into a 930-mile-high orbit Tuesday, flying into space aboard a Rockot launcher to relay emails, technical data and other messages between remote users. The 95-foot-tall launcher, a converted SS-19 ballistic missile from Soviet-era nuclear forces, lifted off Tuesday from Complex 133 at Plesetsk, a military facility about…

  • Russian intelligence gets an upgrade with satellite launch

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    Russia launched a next-generation military reconnaissance satellite Friday, ushering in an era of digital mapping from orbit after decades of relying on film returned to Earth inside landing capsules. The mission blasted off at 1101 GMT (6:01 a.m. EST) Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow. A three-stage kerosene-fueled Soyuz 2-1a…

  • Soyuz rocket lifts off with Russian eavesdropping satellite

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    A satellite to collect intelligence for the Russian government launched Thursday on top of a Soyuz rocket and reached orbit a few minutes after liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow. The Soyuz rocket blasted off from Site 43 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0301 GMT Thursday (10:01 p.m. EST Wednesday),…

  • Russia’s Angara 5 rocket launched on successful maiden flight

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    The first Angara 5 rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0557 GMT (12:57 a.m. EST; 8:57 a.m. local time) Tuesday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence A new Russian rocket designed as a successor to the workhorse Proton booster lifted off Tuesday on a maiden test flight that could signify Russia’s shift away from…