Topic: Russia
Prestige and a multi-billion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soyuz rocket next Thursday when the Soviet-era workhorse launches from Europe's space base in South America.It will be the first time that the legendary rocket, which traces its lineage ...
A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite on Sunday, the defence ministry said, in the first launch since a freighter carried by the flagship vehicle crashed into Earth in August.Russia has "successfully completed the launch of a Soyuz-2 rocket with ...
Russia on Wednesday successfully launched a military satellite after a three-week delay caused by the failure of one its workhorse Proton-M rockets, the Roskosmos space agency said.The satellite, which was launched "in the interests of the ministry of defence," reached orbit nine ...
Three spacemen made a safe delayed return from the International Space Station on Friday as Russia again pushed back the launch of their replacement crew because of a recent rocket crash.Space officials said the Soyuz capsule landed on its side in the ...
Russia on Friday said the next manned launch taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) would take place two days later than previously announced, on November 14."The next manned launch is planned for November 14," the head of the Russian space ...
Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Soviet-era capsule whose mission follows an unprecedented spate of Russian space accidents.Space officials said the Soyuz TMA-21 capsule landed on its side in the wind-swept steppes of the ex-Soviet ...
Three astronauts began their return to Earth from the International Space Station on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule whose mission follows an unprecedented spate of Russian space accidents.The Moscow-based Roskosmos space agency said the Soyuz TMA-21 craft undocked from the orbiter with ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Three International Space Station crewmembers climbed aboard a Soyuz capsule prepared for their return to Earth on Thursday, with their replacements delayed by an ongoing investigation into a Russian launch accident.Former station commander Andrey Borisenko, cosmonaut Alexander ...
Russia on Tuesday set its next manned space flight to the International Space Station for November and said it will not let the orbiter be abandoned despite a recent accident involving its workhorse Soyuz rocket."According to the schedule ... the launch of ...
Russia said Monday it would return three of the six international crew members on board the International Space Station to Earth later this week despite no immediate plans to send up their replacement.A Russian Mission Control Centre official told RIA Novosti that ...
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