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...
by David Todd | Jun 5, 2015 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
A design flaw caused the premature launch separation that damaged the Progress M-027M cargo craft and sent it into an uncontrollable spin. There was a failure to model properly the dynamic and frequency response of the conjoined near-empty, third stage of a newer...
by David Todd | May 15, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz
Sarah Brightman, singer, dancer and former wife of the successful theatre composer, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, has pulled out of her planned space tourist Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS) which was to take place in September 2015. Brightman cited...
by David Todd | May 8, 2015 | NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Progress M-027M cargo craft, that apparently suffered serious damage during its separation from its Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle on 28 April 2015, has now re-entered. Progress M-027M re-entered safely over the Pacific at 0204 GMT on 8 May 2015 with any surviving...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is believed that the Roscosmos-operated freighter/resupply vessel Progress M-027M (aka ISS-59P) launched into orbit on its way to the International Space Station has now failed in orbit. The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz 2-1A rocket fired from the Baikonur...
