Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft originally built for the Soviet manned Moon program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1 ...
Soyuz rockets are assembled horizontally in a hangar – or MIK – and transported to the pad by rail. Once at the pad, Soyuz was raised to vertical and the pad’s four hold-down arms ...
MOSCOW, August 8. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat booster and a Luna-25 probe has been installed on a launch pad of the Vostochny spaceport for Russia’s first automatic lunar ...
A Soyuz rocket has launched a new weather satellite for the Russian Government Friday, replacing a similar spacecraft lost in a 2017 launch failure. The Meteor-M satellite, accompanied by a host ...
MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. Russia’s new light carrier rocket Soyuz-2LK may be ready for launch already in 2020, if financing begins in the imminent future to develop it, CEO of Progress Rocket ...
The Soyuz MS-25 crew waving farewell before the attempted and ultimately aborted launch to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
We love spacecraft and we definitely love teardowns, especially if they are for vintage devices. [Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of ...
A successful launch will also mean that Europe can independently put large satellites into orbit for the first time since Russia pulled its heavy Soyuz rockets after invading Ukraine in 2022.
The launch means that Europe can now independently put large satellites into orbit for the first time since Russia pulled its heavy Soyuz rockets after invading Ukraine in 2022. Ariane 6 was ...
Just before dawn on the icy plains of Central Asia, a giant hanger door opens and a train towing a 2,000 tonne Soyuz rocket rolls to the launch pad in the morning light. On launch day, three ...