The launch arranger Glavkosmos might have denied it, but there is increasing suspicion that something went wrong on the flight of a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat M that launched 72 mainly cubesat-class satellites in July. The main imaging satellite payload Kanopus V-IA was...
The Soyuz MS-03/ISS-49S manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1047 GMT on 2 June. It was carrying two passengers, Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who rode into space on the...
While Soyuz rockets are more usually used to being used to launch spacecraft and satellites to low and medium Earth orbits, the most recent flight from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou was unusually launching a satellite on its way to a geostationary orbit. At...
At 0713 GMT on 20 April 2017, a Soyuz FG rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch was carrying the Soyuz MS-04 crewed spacecraft travelling to the International Space Station. However, due to a decision by Roscosmos,...
A crew of three was safely landed back onto Kazakh territory on Earth after their respective stays on the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft undocked from the ISS’s Poisk module at 0757 GMT on 10 April, and having detached...
At 0558 GMT on 22 February 2017, a Soyuz-U rocket rose into the sky from the ice covered fields at its Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. It was the last mission the venerable Soyuz-U variant would fly. Aboard was a Progress MS-05 cargo craft on its way to deliver...
