Tag: Roscosmos
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Russia launches Glonass navigation satellite
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Saturday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Glonass K navigation satellite. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Soyuz booster and Fregat upper stage successfully delivered an upgraded Russian Glonass navigation satellite to an orbit nearly 12,000 miles above Earth on Saturday. The new satellite joins 24 active navigation spacecraft in…
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Soyuz MS-16 returns Space Station trio to Earth
The three international crew members of the Soyuz MS-16 mission have safely returned to Earth following the undocking of their Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station at 19:32 EDT (23:32 UTC). A parachute and retro-rocket assisted landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan followed at 22:55 EDT on Wednesday, 21 October (02:55 UTC on Thursday,…
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Soyuz MS-17 completes 3 hour journey to ISS
The three space travelers of the Soyuz MS-17 mission launched on a six-month mission the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 lifted off on a Soyuz 2.1a booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site No. 31/6, in Kazakhstan at 05:45:04 UTC on 14 October (01:45:04 EDT), lofting its international crew to space for a very fast, two…
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Search continues for small air leak on space station
File photo of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module. Credit: Roscosmos Crew members on the International Space Station over the weekend continued trying to pinpoint the location of a small air leak in the research outpost’s Russian Zvezda service module, one of the oldest sections of the orbiting laboratory. As of Monday, the station…
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Engineers troubleshooting small space station air leak
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin inside the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module earlier this year. Credit: NASA Engineers are troubleshooting a small air leak aboard the International Space Station that was discovered last September, NASA reported Thursday. While it poses no safety threat, the lab’s…
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Russia’s Nauka ISS module arrives at Baikonur for final launch preparations
The newest habitable module for the International Space Station (ISS), Nauka, has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations before launch. The module’s launch – which has been delayed for more than 13 years – will mark the resumption of Station expansion. Nauka is currently scheduled to launch on a Proton-M rocket…
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Russia’s Nauka ISS module arrives at Baikonur for final launch preparations
The newest habitable module for the International Space Station (ISS), Nauka, has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations before launch. The module’s launch – which has been delayed for more than 13 years – will mark the resumption of Station expansion. Nauka is currently scheduled to launch on a Proton-M rocket…
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Russian Proton-M successfully launches dual Ekspress satellites
Roscosmos – the Russian Space Agency – has successfully launched a Proton-M rocket with two Russian Ekspress communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan. The flight took 18 hours to complete and launched from Site No. 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:25:19 Moscow time on Friday, 31 July (or 21:25:19 UTC…
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Progress MS-15 arrives at Station with eventful automated docking
The Russian Federation’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos, has launched their latest resupply mission to the International Space Station. The supply craft, Progress MS-15, lifted off at 14:26:22 UTC, or 10:26:22 EDT, on Thursday, 23 July from Site No. 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The craft arrived and docked to the Station via its KURS-NA…
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NASA inks deal with Roscosmos to ensure continuous U.S. presence on space station
File photo of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station in March 2019. Credit: NASA With lingering uncertainty about when new U.S. commercial vehicles can regularly carry crews to the space station, NASA said Tuesday it will pay the Russian space agency more than $90 million for a round-trip ticket to the International Space Station…