by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, Satellites, Soyuz
The Egyptsat 2 earth observation satellite has been launched by a Soyuz U launch vehicle from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 1620 GMT on 16 April 2014. The spacecraft which has an official civilian use, is expected to have some military...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The unmanned freighter spacecraft, Progress M-023M (ISS-55P), was successfully launched on a Soyuz-U launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1526GMT on 9 April 2014. After using the “fast” six-hour engine burn...
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...
