Tag: Soyuz-2.1a

  • Soyuz prepared for first flight from Siberian cosmodrome

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    The three-stage Soyuz-2.1a rocket is assembled inside a hangar at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos The first Soyuz rocket to launch from a new cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East is being assembled for liftoff in April with a package of small research satellites. Technicians inside a hangar at the Vostochny Cosmodrome…

  • Modernized Russian cargo ship heads for space station

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    Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Russia’s Progress supply ship got an upgrade with a successful cargo launch to the International Space Station on Monday. The Progress MS spacecraft enclosed within the Soyuz rocket’s nose shroud lifted off at 0844:39 GMT (3:44:39 a.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, beginning a two-day chase of the International…

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    Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Russia’s Progress supply ship got an upgrade with a successful cargo launch to the International Space Station on Monday. The Progress MS spacecraft enclosed within the Soyuz rocket’s nose shroud lifted off at 0844:39 GMT (3:44:39 a.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, beginning a two-day chase of the International…

  • 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…

  • Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket

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    Russian technicians work on the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and Progress M-27M spacecraft before their doomed April 28 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia Russia says a design bug from the pairing of a Progress spacecraft with an upgraded version of the venerable Soyuz launcher led to the loss of…

  • 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…