by David Todd | Jul 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, SpaceX
After a series of three unrelated launch failures, the crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) finally got resupplied when the unmanned freighter Progress M-028M lifted off as planned from Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0455 GMT on 3 July...
by David Todd | Jun 29, 2015 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic
European launch provider Arianespace has been awarded a contract worth up to US$1.5 billion to launch most of the initial 648 microsatellite internet-communications Ku-band constellation for OneWeb. The launches will take place on 21 Soyuz-ST rockets over a two-year...
by David Todd | Jun 25, 2015 | Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Aerospace Defence Forces of Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia on 23 June 2015 at 1644 GMT. Aboard was a Persona-class reconnaissance satellite, later dubbed Cosmos 2506, which was being carried for...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
Soyuz TMA-015M undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1020 GMT on 11 June 2015 ready for its re-entry the same day. Despite concerns that it had previously made an un-commanded thruster firing while attached to the station, all went well in the...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | International Space Station, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-015M spacecraft that was due to return astronauts back to Earth made an unintentional thruster firing on 9 June 2015 while connected to the International Space Station (ISS). The firing took place at 1527 GMT, apparently during testing of a radio system...
by David Todd | Jun 8, 2015 | Russia, Soyuz
Russian Aerospace Defence Forces launched a Soyuz 2-1a from the Plesetsk launch site at 1524 GMT on 5 June 2015. The satellite, dubbed Cosmos 2505 (Kosmos 2505), is known to be one of the last military “Yantar M” class film reconnaissance satellites to be...
