by David Todd | Apr 8, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Soyuz
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel 1A radar satellite was successfully launched into a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit on board a Soyuz ST-A/Fregat M launch vehicle from its Sinnamary launch site near Kourou, French Guiana at 2102 GMT on 3 April 2014. ...
by David Todd | Mar 28, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-012M /ISS-38S manned spacecraft docked with the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 1153 GMT on 28 March 2014, three days after its launch on 25 March. The spacecraft’s original “four orbit” approach plan had to be...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-012M manned spacecraft was successfully launched aboard a Soyuz FG launch vehicle towards the International Space Statikon from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 2117 GMT on 25 March 2013. The flight carrying Russian...
by David Todd | Mar 24, 2014 | Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
At 2254 GMT on 23 March 2014, a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M launch vehicle lifted off from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. Aboard was a Glonass-M navigatation satellite to be fitted into the Russian equivalent to the GPS constellation. In being...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2014 | International Space Station, JAXA, Russia, Soyuz
While Russian and the Western nations wrestle with the Ukranian annexation crisis, for the time being it is business as usual for the International Space Station (ISS)and its respective astronaut crews. As planned, the Soyuz TMA-010M manned spacecraft undocked from...
by David Todd | Feb 6, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully launched its Progress M-022M cargo freighter spacecraft (aka ISS-54P) on its way from the Baikonur cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1623 GMT on 5 February 2014 using a Soyuz U rocket. The...
