Russia launched the first in a new series of weather satellites to aid forecasting over its high-latitude regions. The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:55 local time (06:55 UTC) on Sunday bound for an elliptical Molniya orbit.
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The Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate to this day in part due to the…
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Russia has launched a new satellite to replenish its GLONASS navigation system Tuesday, via a…
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Soyuz FG fails during ascent – Soyuz MS-10 crew safe after ballistic entry abort
The Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, launched their Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle with two new…
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A Russian Soyuz-2-1b rocket suffered a rare pad abort during a launch attempt with the…
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Russia conducted its second Soyuz launch in the space of two days on Friday, with…
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Russia launched its fourth Foton-M research satellite on Friday (UTC) to begin a sixty-day mission…
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In the first of two Soyuz-2 launches scheduled for Tuesday, a Soyuz-2-1b flying out of…
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Russia has conducted the final orbital launch of 2011, as their Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat deploying six Globalstar communications satellites…