Posts Tagged ‘Soyuz’
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Just hours before the Soyuz TMA-03M successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), another Russian Soyuz launch vehicle failed during its task to loft the Meridian-5 satellite into orbit. The failure became the main subject of a post-docking media briefing for TMA-03M, resulting in Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin portraying serious internal issues at the [...]
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Russian
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 29S, successfully docked to the ISS at the Mini Research Module-1 (MRM-1) “Rassvet” Nadir docking port, vacated just over one month ago by Soyuz TMA-02M/27S, at 3:19 PM GMT on Friday.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft – also known by its US designation of 29S – has launched toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the wintry Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 1:16 PM GMT (7:16 PM local Kazakh time), carrying three crewmembers for the station’s current Expedition 30 and future Expedition 31 crews.
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Tags: ISS, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Friday, December 16th, 2011
Arianespace have launched their Soyuz ST-A from the European Spaceport “Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG)” in Kourou, French Guiana. The veteran rocket successfully launched Pleiades, SSOT and four Elisa satellites into a Sun synchronous orbit, with launch occurring at the opening of the launch window at 02:03 GMT on Friday morning.
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Tags: Arianespace, Soyuz
Published in European
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Russia has successfully launched another Kosmos (Glonass-M) class satellite into orbit, following lift-off of their Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Launch occurred at 08:25 UTC on Monday, with a successful spacecraft separation confirmed just over three hours later.
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Tags: Glonass, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Russian
Monday, November 21st, 2011
The Russian Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft, also going by its US designation of 27S, has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and returned to Earth on Tuesday morning, carrying three members of the outgoing Expedition 29 crew. As the second of the new “digital” Soyuz TMA-M variants, a special attitude control test was performed post-undocking.
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Tags: ISS, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft has successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) after a two day free flight following a flawless launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. The arrival of Soyuz TMA-22 with three crewmembers has averted a possible de-crewing of the station following the failure of a Soyuz booster in August.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
In what was a critical launch for the Russian space program, the Soyuz FG launch vehicle has successfully lofted the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft into orbit ahead of a two day trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Launch took place at 04:15am on Monday morning from the very snowy Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Just over two months after the launch failure of the Progress 44P unmanned resupply craft to the International Space Station, Russian Federal Space Agency officials have successfully docked the Progress 45P spacecraft to the International Space Station in a return to flight event that paves the way for the resumption of manned Soyuz launches to [...]
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Tags: ISS, Progress, Soyuz
Published in Russian
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has successfully returned the venerable Soyuz booster to flight via the launch of the Soyuz-U booster carrying the uncrewed Progress M-13M/45P resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch is the first successful Soyuz booster flight to the ISS since the 24th August failure of the Soyuz-U booster carrying [...]
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Tags: ISS, Progress, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Other, Russian
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Arianespace have launched, at the second attempt, their debut Soyuz ST-B from the European Spaceport “Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG)” in Kourou, French Guiana, following a scrub during Thursday’s tanking. The launch – was on schedule at 10:30am GMT on Friday – lofting two European “Galileo” navigation satellites into orbit from the specially built launch site.
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Tags: Arianespace, Galileo, Soyuz
Published in European, Featured
Monday, October 10th, 2011
International Space Station (ISS) Program managers are continuing with precautionary preparations for station operations without the presence of on-board crewmembers, in the event that a de-crewing of the ISS is needed should Russia be unable to return the Soyuz booster to flight by mid-November.
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Tags: ISS, Progress, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Commercial, Featured, Russian
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Negotiations between the numerous International Space Station (ISS) partners are starting to result in an exciting 2012 manifest, as Agency vehicles play tag team with new commercial resupply craft. From a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) standpoint, three – or four, if the C2/C3 demo slips to 2012 – SpaceX Dragon flights are set to head [...]
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Tags: Cygnus, Dragon, ISS, Orbital, Soyuz, SpaceX
Published in Commercial, Featured
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Russia has successfully launched the Kosmos (Glonass-M) satellite into orbit, following lift-off of their Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, marking the first Soyuz launch since the August failure, which resulted in the loss of Progress M-12M. Launch occurred at 20:15 UTC on Sunday, with spacecraft separation over three hours [...]
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Tags: Soyuz
Published in Other, Russian
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-21/26S spacecraft departed the International Space Station (ISS) today (Friday 16th September) prior to landing in Kazakhstan a few hours later. Soyuz TMA-21, carrying American astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev & Andrey Borisenko, undocked from the Mini Research Module-2 (MRM-2) Zenith docking port at 12:38 AM GMT, before landing at [...]
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Tags: Dragon, ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
International Space Station (ISS) Program managers are working to re-align resupply and crew rotation manifests following last week’s launch failure of the Progress M-12M/44P spacecraft. The failure of the Soyuz-U booster’s third stage grounded both the Soyuz-U rockets used to launch cargo, and the Soyuz-FG rockets used to launch crews, since both rockets share very [...]
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Tags: Commercial, ISS, Progress, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Commercial, Featured, Other, Russian
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
The Russian Progress M-12M spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 44P, blasted off toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today (Wednesday 24th August) at around 1:00 PM GMT, which was 7:00 PM Baikonur time. Unfortunately for the ISS, around 325 seconds into the flight, the third stage [...]
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Tags: Dextre, ISS, Progress, Russian, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Other, Russian
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Starsem’s Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle has launched six Globalstar satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch was on time, at the opening of the window at 2:27am UTC on Wednesday, following a 24 hour scrub due to a technical issue with the launch pad, which was then followed by an additional one day postponement to [...]
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Tags: Soyuz
Published in Russian
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The second of Russia’s new digital Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-02M/27S, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday at 8:12 PM GMT, carrying three new crewmembers for the International Space Station (ISS). Following a two day free flight, Soyuz TMA-02M arrived at the ISS on Thursday for a docking to the Mini Research Module-1 [...]
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
The Russian Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 25S, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday after five months on-orbit. Prior to a successful landing, Soyuz TMA-20 participated in a unique and historical event to photograph the ISS while the Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked to the complex, providing [...]
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz, STS-134
Published in Featured, Other, Russian, Shuttle
