by David Todd | Jul 8, 2016 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 0136 GMT on 8 July 2016 the maiden launch of the new MS (Modernized Systems) variant of the Soyuz manned spacecraft was performed by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. On board the Soyuz MS-01 craft was a...
by David Todd | May 18, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
The state Russian news agency TASS has reported that RSC Energia, the firm in charge of the building and operation of Soyuz spacecraft has declared that NASA has booked six more “seats” for its astronauts on Soyuz flights to the International Space...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2016 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Science, Soyuz
Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, witnessed the first flight of an orbital launch vehicle from the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in Far Eastern Russia on 28 April 2015. Following a one-day delay due to a ground support fault, the Soyuz 2-1a Volga rocket lifted off from...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
The Progress MS-02/ISS-63P cargo craft was successfully sent on its way to dock with the International Space Station after its Soyuz 2-1a launch on 31 March 2016. The launch took place at 1624 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. After a two...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2016 | History, International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Soyuz, space station
At 2126 GMT on 18 March 2015, a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Before the launch from Pad 1, Soyuz Commander and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and...
by David Todd | Dec 21, 2015 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz 2-1a launch of Progress MS-01 took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0844 GMT on 21 December 2015. The spacecraft is the first of a new Progress-MS design which is an improved variant of the venerable Progress freighter...
