Tag: Soyuz
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Aloha! Three new crewmates welcomed aboard space station, Hawaiian-style
News Brief: The orbital welcoming committee wore Hawaiian shirts when three new crew members arrived at the International Space Station today. “We’re really glad to see them, finally,” Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said. NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Germany’s Alexander Gerst and Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev floated through the hatch after a two-day trip aboard a Russian Soyuz…
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Soyuz MS-09 docks with ISS; Artificial Intelligence to join crew in orbit
For the second time this year, Roscosmos launched three crewmembers towards the International Space Station. Soyuz Commander Sergei Prokopyev and fellow crewmembers Dr. Alexander Gerst and Dr. Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor launched on Soyuz MS-09 at 07:12 EDT (1112 UTC) on Wednesday, 6 June from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day rendezvous with the…
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An international trio heads for the space station after picture-perfect Soyuz launch
A Russian Soyuz rocket rises from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) News Brief: Three spacefliers from three different countries are on their way to the International Space Station for a nearly six-month tour of duty after today’s launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome…
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Three Station crewmembers return to Earth on Soyuz MS-07
After 168 days in orbit, three crewmembers of the International Space Station returned to Earth on Sunday. Soyuz MS-07 Commander Anton Shkaplerov, as well as Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai, departed the International Space Station Sunday at 05:16 EDT (0916 UTC) ahead of landing three and a half hours later on the steppes of Kazakhstan.…
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One trio comes home from the space station just as another gets set to launch
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft fires its retro rockets as it touches down in Kazakhstan, marking the return of three spacefliers from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) News Brief: The hatch to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module has a lot in common with a revolving door this week, due to today’s…
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Mysterious Russian reconnaissance satellite successfully launched
A small spacecraft built for the Russian military lifted off Thursday on top of a modified Soyuz booster, beginning a mission to reportedly test a compact Earth-imaging platform that could be used on future spy satellites. The lightweight payload rode a Soyuz 2-1v rocket into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a space base around 500…
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Space station crew returns to full strength with trio’s arrival on Russian Soyuz craft
News Brief: Two days after their launch, a fresh trio of spacefliers floated through the International Space Station’s hatch today to start a five-month tour of duty in orbit. The arrival of Russia’s Oleg Artemyev and NASA’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft brought the crew back up to its full…
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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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Soyuz MS-08 mission, first crew launch of 2018, docks with ISS
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, conducted the world’s first crew launch of 2018 this week ahead of a successful docking. The mission utilized the veteran Soyuz-FG rocket, atop which three crew members, two Americans and one Russian, departed for the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
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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…