Tag: Baikonur
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Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-17 to ISS
Roscosmos has launched their latest resupply mission to the International Space Station, Progress MS-17. The launch occurred at 23:27 UTC on June 29 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle was used to launch the Progress MS-17 spacecraft. The mission is known to NASA as Progress 78P, as…
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Buran shuttle graffiti highlights concern for space history, need for museum ownership & care
After the latest incident at Baikonur where a group of street artists painted graffiti on the Buran 1.02 space shuttle, named Burya, Roscosmos expressed its concern about the fate of the unique remnants of the Energia-Buran program stored at the spaceport and has expressed a desire to discuss this issue at the next meeting of…
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Russia launches multi-satellite rideshare mission on commercial Soyuz flight
Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos launched its first dedicated commercial launch through its GK Launch Services subsidiary, using a Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat vehicle to deliver a cluster of satellites to orbit, including South Korea’s CAS500-1. Soyuz – sporting a new blue and white livery – lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on…
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Russia’s Soyuz-2-1b launches Arktika-M No.1 weather satellite
Russia launched the first in a new series of weather satellites to aid forecasting over its high-latitude regions. The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:55 local time (06:55 UTC) on Sunday bound for an elliptical Molniya orbit. The Arktika (Арктика, meaning “Arctic“) satellites will carry out…
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Soyuz MS-17 completes 3 hour journey to ISS
The three space travelers of the Soyuz MS-17 mission launched on a six-month mission the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 lifted off on a Soyuz 2.1a booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site No. 31/6, in Kazakhstan at 05:45:04 UTC on 14 October (01:45:04 EDT), lofting its international crew to space for a very fast, two…
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Russian Proton-M successfully launches dual Ekspress satellites
Roscosmos – the Russian Space Agency – has successfully launched a Proton-M rocket with two Russian Ekspress communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan. The flight took 18 hours to complete and launched from Site No. 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:25:19 Moscow time on Friday, 31 July (or 21:25:19 UTC…
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Progress MS-15 arrives at Station with eventful automated docking
The Russian Federation’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos, has launched their latest resupply mission to the International Space Station. The supply craft, Progress MS-15, lifted off at 14:26:22 UTC, or 10:26:22 EDT, on Thursday, 23 July from Site No. 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The craft arrived and docked to the Station via its KURS-NA…