by David Todd | Mar 30, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Soyuz
A pair of Soyuz rockets were launched into orbit on the same day. At 1943 GMT on 27 March 2015, a Soyuz FG launched the TMA-016M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The flight carried Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail...
by David Todd | Mar 2, 2015 | Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1 launch vehicle successfully launched a Bars-M class electro-optical area surveillance stereoscopic cartography satellite called Cosmos 2503 on 28 February 2015 for the Russian Ministry of Defence. The spacecraft was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in...
by David Todd | Feb 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Soyuz
The European launch provider Arianespace has ordered six more Soyuz launch vehicles to fly from its Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana (part of the Guiana Space Centre) during the next four years. According to the Russian state news agency Tass, the...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2015 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
Progress M-026M re-supply craft was successfully launched at 1100 GMT on 17 February 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz-U launch vehicle. The Progress cargo spacecraft conducted a four orbit rapid rendezvous ascent to catch up...
by David Todd | Jan 29, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz, SpaceX
The days of the Russian space programme extracting pay cheques out of NASA may soon be coming to an end if NASA’s commercial crew launch schedule occurs as planned. At a press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA and representatives...
by David Todd | Jan 2, 2015 | China, exploration, Russia, SLS, Soyuz, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Technology, Virgin Galactic
2014 was an interesting space year in many ways. It had elements of great achievement, some notable failures, and confirmed some industry trends that are looking unstoppable. Record breaking year for number of launched payloads Driven mainly by commercial factors and...
