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...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Satellites, Soyuz
There were four launches made over the Christmas period. At 1642 GMT on 20 December, a Chinese Long March 3B/E launch vehicle successfully launched the Tupac Katari communications spacecraft for teh Bolivian Space Agency from China’s Xichang launch site. This...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station
An unmanned Russian Progress M-021M (ISS-53P) cargo spacecraft/freighter has been launched into orbit on a Soyuz U launch vehicle on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place at 2053 GMT on 25 November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
by David Todd | Nov 14, 2013 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
Russian military authorities have revealed that in an incident at the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia on 9 November 2013, two military officers were killed attempting to rescue a soldier who had himself been overcome with nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser fumes in a...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The manned Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and US NASA astronaut, Karen Nyberg and an Olympic torch safely back to Earth, touching down using parachutes and braking rockets at 0249 GMT on 11...
