ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 10:34 GMT on Wednesday, with their Soyuz TMA-15 scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 12:36 GMT on Friday 29 May - marking the start of six crew operations [...]

Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer and Soyuz TMA-13 Commander Yury Lonchakov and space tourist Charles Simonyi have returned home safely, following their landing in Kazakhstan this morning. The safe return backs up the findings presented in an expansive NASA and Russian document that outlined the off-nominal ballistic re-entries of Soyuz TMA-10 and 11, [...]

A Russian Soyuz launch vehicle has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:49am CDT, carrying NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant and U.S. software engineer Charles Simonyi.

A Russian Rockot launch vehicle - a converted SS-19 Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) - launched on Tuesday, following a 24 hour delay when Monday’s attempt was scrubbed at T-7 seconds, due to an issue with the Launch Service Tower. The vehicle is carrying the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) spacecraft into orbit on Monday.

The three members of Expedition 18 carried out the contingency of  “evacuation” into the Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS), following a “RED threshold late notice conjunction threat” alert, related to Object “25090 PAM-D” debris. The threat passed with no impact, allowing the crew to egress back into the Station.

STS-119’s opening launch attempt has been scrubbed until Sunday, March 15,, following a LH2 leak during tanking. The leak related to a carrier plate that is attached to the intertank area of the ET, with attempts to cycle the associated valve to reduce the leak to acceptable proving to be unsuccessful.

The Russian cargo ship Progress M-66/32P has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, ahead of docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on February 13. The resupply vehicle is carrying 2.5 tons of cargo for the Station’s Expedition 18 crew.

Russia has launched its third satellite on a program for the study of the Sun and solar-terrestrial physics. The launch of Koronas-Foton took place at 13:30 UTC from the GIK-1 Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km North of Moscow. This was the last launch of the venerable 11K68 Tsyklon-3 rocket.

Expedition 18 crewmembers Yury Lonchakov and Michael Fincke have performed a Russian spacewalk (ISS RS EVA-21), which has included the installation of a probe to aid the on-going investigation into the off-nominal re-entries of two Soyuz vehicles. Meanwhile, the continued assessments into work conducted during STS-126’s EVAs on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJs) are [...]

The last ILS mission of 2008 has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, as their Proton-M launch vehicle prepares lifted-off from Pad PU-39 of Launch Complex 200. Launch occured on time at 13:43 UTC. The launch phase of the mission will last a total of nine hours, injecting the Ciel-2 communications satellite in to a geostationary [...]

International Launch Services (ILS) have launched a Russian Proton M launch vehicle from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 20:44 UTC. The vehicle is on a nine hour journey to loft the ASTRA 1M telecommunications satellite into orbit.

A Russian Soyuz launch vehicle has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 03:01 EDT, carrying Expedition 18’s Michael Fincke and Yuri Lonchakov, along with space tourist Richard Garriot.

An imagery survey has found the S1 radiator on the International Space Station (ISS) has been damaged, with one of the face sheets observed to have “peeled back” from the structure.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the ballistic re-entry of Soyuz TMA-11 - which is centered around the problematic pyrotechnic bolts that separate the crew [...]

The Russian resupply vehicle Progress M-64/29P has launched on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The vehicle will dock with the International Space Station on Friday.
Meanwhile, evaluations are also continuing on the freon coolant leak in the Russian segment of the Station - as efforts to removed contaminants via [...]

Russia’s Soyuz TMA-12 has successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
The Soyuz lofted Expedition 17 cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko to the International Space Station (ISS), along with South Korean engineer So-Yeon Yi - as she becomes the first person from her nation to reach space. Docking is set [...]

Russia has successfully carried out a Christmas Day launch of their Proton-M launch vehicle with a Block DM-2 upper stage, carrying three Glonass-M GPS satellites. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome occurred at 7:32pm UTC.
The launch marks the 20th mission from Baikonur during 2007, 19 of which were successful. The September 6 Proton-M launch, [...]

A Soyuz 2.1b-FG launch vehicle with Fregat upper stage has launched with the RADARSAT-2 satellite - Canada’s next-generation commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite. Launch was successful at 13:17 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, images and a free launch video, available on the [...]

International Launch Services (ILS) are back in action, following the successful launch of their Proton-M, carrying the SIRIUS 4 communications satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Following a 9 hours, 13 minute ride on the Briz-M upper stage, SIRIUS was successfully released into the satellite into geostationary transfer.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian physician Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) via their Soyuz TMA-11 launch vehicle Wednesday morning.
The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome was successful at 9:22am Eastern time. NASASpaceflight.com is covering the launch as a live event (click [...]