Tag: Baikonur
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Progress MS-21 launches and docks to ISS on resupply mission
Roscosmos launched Progress MS-21 atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 8:20 PM EDT on Oct. 25 (00:20 UTC on Oct. 26). After launching from Site 31/6 in Baikonur, the Progress MS-21 spacecraft conducted a standard two-day autonomous rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). This comes after the then-head of…
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Proton-M flyout continues with launch of Angosat-2
Russia launched Angosat-2 atop a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 15:00 UTC on Oct. 12. The 118th launch of Proton-M took place from Site 81/24 in Baikonur, and marks the first launch for the Proton-M rocket for 2022. The payload for the mission is the Angosat-2 telecommunications satellite for the African…
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Soyuz MS-22 lofts two Russians and one American to ISS
The Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, has launched three people to the International Space Station (ISS) from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 13:54:49 UTC on Wednesday, Sept. 21. The launch marks a resumption of US astronaut flights onboard Russian rockets and is the first of up to three crew…
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Russia launches Soyuz rocket with Iranian satellite and CubeSats
At 05:52 UTC on August 9, a Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket launched from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying the Khayyam satellite for Iran and 16 CubeSats for various institutions and universities. The launch was originally scheduled for as early as the summer of 2021 but was delayed multiple times. The satellite, named “Khayyam” after…
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Progress MS-20 docks to the International Space Station
A Soyuz 2.1a rocket has launched Progress MS-20 resupply spacecraft from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress MS-20 then conducted a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) before docking to the aft port on the Zvezda service module at approximately 13:02 UTC (09:02 a.m. EDT). The mission is the…
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First all-Roscosmos cosmonaut mission arrives at station
The Russian federal space agency Roscosmos launched a Soyuz 2.1a with three cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, March 18 at 11:55 am EDT (15:55 UTC) aboard the Soyuz MS-21 mission. Utilizing a fast-track rendezvous, the all-Roscosmos crew docked – manually – to the station approximately three hours after liftoff to start a…
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Progress MS-19 docks with the ISS
The Progress MS-19 spacecraft – on its 80th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – docked early on Thursday. Progress MS-19, also known as Progress 80P, launched on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 15 at 9:25 am Baikonur time, or 11:25 pm…
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Soyuz 2.1b successfully launches 36 OneWeb Satellites
Starsem, Arianespace, and Roscosmos have launched a Soyuz 2.1b for OneWeb flight 12. Lift-off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan occurred at 13:10 UTC (08:10 EST) on December 27. Also known as ST-37 by both Arianespace and Starsem, the latter is a joint French-Russian company that commercializes Soyuz launches. This year, a…
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Russia launches two Ekspress satellites via Proton-M
Russia’s Proton-M rocket launched a pair of communications satellites Monday, in a rare outing for Russia’s heavy-lift launch vehicle. Monday’s launch took place at 12:07 UTC (17:07 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the mission lasting 18 hours from liftoff to final spacecraft separation. Proton’s payload is made up of Ekspress-AMU3 and…
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Soyuz MS-19 launches film crew to Station amid tightened Russian space reporting regulations
The Soyuz MS-19 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off at 08:55 UTC (04:55 EDT) on Tuesday, October 5 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, before docking after a two-orbit rendezvous – albeit after another troublesome docking, requiring manual control to complete the arrival. The mission delivered one new Russian…