Tag: Soyuz
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Arianespace Soyuz ST-B launches latest O3b satellites
The Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket launched the next set of four O3b communication satellites into orbit on Friday. The spacecraft are heading to a constellation that is already populated by 12 of the birds controlled by O3b Networks. Lift off from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana was slightly delayed due to upper level winds, before…
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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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Space station trio gets warm welcome back to Earth in frosty Kazakhstan
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft descends through the morning sky on its way to a touchdown in Kazakhstan. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) News Brief: Three spacefliers touched down amid subfreezing temperatures in Kazakhstan tonight, closing out their 168-day mission on the International Space Station. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft brought NASA’s Joe Acaba and Mark Vande…
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Soyuz MS-06 returns three ISS crew members to Earth
Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) in their Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft. The trio landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan around 02:31 UTC. During their 168 days in space, they were part of the first expedition…
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Progress MS-08 docks with ISS
The Russian Progress resupply ship MS-08 has docked with the International Space Station, two days after launching on a Soyuz 2-1A rocket. Docking was marked at 10:38 UTC. The original launch was to result in docking at the International Space Station (ISS) just 3.5 hours later on Tuesday. However, it was scrubbed with just seconds…
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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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A new trio settles in on the space station
The six space station crewmates of Expedition 54 face the camera after their orbital meetup. Upper row: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei. Lower row: Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov and Norishige Kanai. (NASA TV) News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today’s…
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Soyuz MS-07 docks with ISS following final human launch of 2017
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, launched the final human mission of 2017. Three new members for the International Space Station – Anton Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle, and Norishige Kanai – launched aboard the Soyuz MS-07 vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 02:21 EST (07:21 GMT) on Sunday, 17 December – ahead of completing…
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Russian Soyuz sends crew to space station while SpaceX Dragon makes cargo delivery
News Brief: Three new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after a successful launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Scott Tingle, Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov and Japan’s Norishige Kanai lifted off at 11:21 p.m. PT Saturday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and are to arrive at the station on…