Tag: Russia
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U.S.-Russian crew lifts off on two-day trip to International Space Station
News Brief: Russia launched a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, sending two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station. Russia’s Oleg Artemyev and NASA’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold are due to dock with the orbital outpost at 12:41 p.m. PT Friday. They’ll join Russian station commander…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket soars into space from French Guiana
A Soyuz rocket launched Friday with four commercial satellites to expand broadband Internet coverage in remote parts of the world, climbing into orbit from the Guiana Space Center positioned on the northeastern shore of South America. The Russian-made rocket lifted off at 1710:06 GMT (12:10:06 p.m. EST; 2:10:06 p.m. French Guiana time) Friday after a…
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Live coverage: Soyuz rocket lifts off with four O3b broadband satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b commercial broadband communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 1622 GMT (11:22 a.m. EST). If you appreciate what we do, please consider becoming a Spaceflight Now member and…
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Video: Replay of Soyuz takeoff with four O3b broadband satellites
Video credit: Arianespace A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off Friday from French Guiana with four broadband satellites for the O3b network, which provides high-speed connectivity to developing countries, ships and other customers who lack a reliable Internet link. The Soyuz-2.1b booster launched at 1710:06 GMT (12:10:06 p.m. EST; 2:10:06 p.m. French Guiana time) from…
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Four O3b satellites launched to beam Internet to developing world
A Soyuz rocket lifts off Friday from the Guiana Space Center with four O3b broadband satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Four satellites set to join O3b’s expanding broadband network successfully launched Friday on top of a Russian-built Soyuz booster from French Guiana, joining 12 other craft linking developing…
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Soyuz launch from French Guiana delayed to Friday
The Soyuz rocket set to launch with four new O3b broadband satellites rolled out to its launch pad in French Guiana on March 2. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon The blastoff of four broadband Internet satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana has been pushed back to Friday,…
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Cosmonauts toss out antenna box, install a new one during longest Russian spacewalk
News Brief: A pair of Russian cosmonauts today conducted their nation’s longest-ever spacewalk to replace an electronics box for a high-gain antenna on the International Space Station’s Russian-made Zvezda module. The old box was thrown outward on a trajectory that’s not expected to imperil the station, but it took some doing to get the new…
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Russia opens 2018 campaign with Soyuz 2-1A launch of Kanopus-V
Russia made its first launch of 2018 Thursday, using a Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat-M rocket to deliver a pair of Kanopus-V satellites to orbit. Soyuz lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia at 11:07 Yakutsk Time (02:07 UTC), beginning a five-and-a-half-hour mission that will also include the deployment of nine secondary payloads. The two Kanopus-V satellites…
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Russian official blames Nov. 28 launch failure on botched software programming
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Nov. 28 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A senior Russian politician whose portfolio includes the country’s space program has blamed human error for a Nov. 28 launch failure that led to the destruction of a $45 million weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads, according to…
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Communications restored with newly-launched Angolan satellite
The Angosat 1 satellite during launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: RSC Energia The Russian manufacturer of Angola’s first communications satellite announced Friday that it has reestablished contact with the spacecraft after engineers stopped receiving signals shortly after its launch earlier this week. Ground controllers lost contact with the Angosat 1 communications…