Tag: Soyuz
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Abort, retry, fail? Astronaut pokes fun at Windows XP during space training in Russia
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet undergoes training in a Soyuz spacecraft simulator in 2014 at Russia’s Star City cosmonaut training center. (Credit: ESA) Moscow, we have a problem: Russia’s cosmonaut training center in Star City might need to upgrade its Soyuz spacecraft simulators to Windows 10. Based on some snapshots tweeted by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet,…
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Soyuz prepared for first flight from Siberian cosmodrome
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…
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Upgraded Progress MS docks with the ISS
The first of the upgraded Russian Progress resupply vehicles launched atop the Soyuz 2-1A from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday at 08:44 UTC, prior to docking with the International Space Station two days later. The Progress 62 (Progress MS 431) spacecraft has brought 2.5 tons of cargo, including dry cargo, propellant, water and compressed…
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Modernized Russian cargo ship heads for space station
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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Modernized Russian cargo ship heads for space station
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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Arianespace Soyuz ST-B successfully launches Galileo duo
An Arianespace Soyuz ST-B launched with another pair of Galileo satellites from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday. The launch of the FM08 and FM09 satellites – FOC M4, SAT 11-14 – was on schedule at 11:51 UTC, ahead of nearly four hours of flight en route to the IOC (initial operation capability)…
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Soyuz TMA-19M docks with ISS in landmark moment for UK spaceflight
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft has completed its fast track journey to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying three crewmembers. The launch – and what resulted in a manual docking following a KURS failure – marked a very special moment for the United Kingdom as its first “official” astronaut, Tim Peake – became the first British…
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Thales, Arianespace win repeat business with O3b
Artist’s concept of O3b satellites in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space Armed with $460 million in fresh financing to grow its broadband communications capacity, O3b Networks has selected Thales Alenia Space to build eight new satellites and Arianespace to launch at least four of them aboard a Soyuz rocket in 2018. The contracts will allow…
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Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch
One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, bringing three station crewmen back to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Kimiya Yui, Oleg Kononenko and Kjell Lindgren bid goodbye to their space station crewmates Friday before departing the complex and heading for landing. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly Three space station fliers floated into their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the lab complex and plunged back to Earth Friday, making…