Tag: Soyuz
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Russian intelligence gets an upgrade with satellite launch
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…
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Photos: Russian supply ship blasts off from Kazakhstan
Russia’s Progress M-26M cargo carrier lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, climbed through clouds and into orbit, then executed an on-time radar-guided docking with the International Space Station six hours later. Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Energia Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos…
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Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station
The Progress M-26M spacecraft lifted off at 1100 GMT (6 a.m. EST; 5 p.m. local time) Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Russia launched a Progress resupply mission Tuesday heading for the International Space Station with more than 6,000 pounds of fuel, supplies and experiments to support the lab’s six-person…
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Progress cargo mission ready for launch to space station
A Russian Progress supply ship packed with 3.1 tons of cargo and propellant to refuel the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress M-26M cargo craft will blast off at 6:00:17 a.m. EST (1100:17 GMT) Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket, which rolled out to Launch Complex…
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Galileo satellite deployment campaign to resume
One of two Galileo satellites is unloaded from an Air France Boeing 747 cargo plane on Thursday after arrival in Cayenne, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/Paul Muller Two Galileo navigation satellites arrived at the Guiana Space Center in South America on Thursday after a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris, as European officials plan the resumption of Galileo…
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NASA expects continued use of Soyuz in era of commercial spaceships
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION A Soyuz spacecraft is pictured docked at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA hopes to begin launching U.S. and partner astronauts to the space station aboard Boeing and SpaceX ferry craft in the 2017 timeframe, but agency managers expect to continue sending crew members up…
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2014’s launch tally highest in two decades
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flew nine times in 2014, more than any other U.S. launcher. Six of the missions flew from Cape Canaveral, which was the starting point for 16 space launches in 2014, tied for the highest number of launches there since 2003. Credit: ULA There were more successful space launches…
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Soyuz rocket launches with Russian Earth observation craft
The Soyuz 2-1b rocket carrying the Resurs P2 satellite lifted off at 1855 GMT (1:55 p.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: TsENKI TV A new Russian satellite streaked into orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket Friday, carrying high-resolution cameras to survey the globe and a plasma physics experiment to seek out signs of…
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Soyuz rocket lifts off with Russian eavesdropping satellite
A satellite to collect intelligence for the Russian government launched Thursday on top of a Soyuz rocket and reached orbit a few minutes after liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow. The Soyuz rocket blasted off from Site 43 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0301 GMT Thursday (10:01 p.m. EST Wednesday),…
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Russian Earth observing satellite ready for launch
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled for launch Friday with Russia’s Resurs P2 satellite, a civilian-operated spacecraft with a sharp-eyed camera to collect high-resolution imagery for Russian government authorities and international agencies. The Soyuz 2-1b launcher is set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1855 GMT (1:55 p.m. EST). The three-stage rocket will…