Tag: Russia
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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…
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Controllers lose contact with new Angolan communications satellite
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1910 GMT (2:10 p.m. EST) Tuesday with confirmation of liftoff. Updated at 1630 GMT (11:30 a.m. EST) Wednesday with confirmation of a problem with the Angosat 1 satellite. A Ukrainian-built Zenit booster and a Russian-made Fregat upper stage launched with an Angolan communications satellite Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,…
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Intelligence-gathering satellite deployed in orbit for Russian military
Video credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian military surveillance satellite designed to monitor adversaries’ radio signals successfully launched Saturday aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Lotos-S1 spy satellite lifted off on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket at 1043 GMT (5:43 a.m. EST) Saturday from Site 43 at Plesetsk, then turned northeast on a…
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19 spacecraft go missing after Russian weather satellite launch goes awry
A Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. (Roscosmos Photo) Russia’s Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and 18 nanosatellites went missing today after their launch aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. Among the lost spacecraft were 10 satellites that were supposed to be…