Tag: Breeze KM
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Russia retires Rockot launcher after liftoff with four satellites
The final flight of Russia’s Rockot launcher took off Thursday and placed four satellites into orbit nearly 1,000 miles above Earth, ending a run of 31 launches since May 2000. Derived from decommissioned Soviet-era missiles, the Rockot vehicles launched Russian military satellites, European Earth observation satellites, and payloads for NASA and Iridium during its…
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Russian military satellite orbited by Rockot launcher
A geodetic surveying satellite for the Russian military successfully launched Friday aboard a Rockot booster — a modified ballistic missile — from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher lifted off at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT; 5 p.m. Moscow time) Friday from Plesetsk, according to a statement released by Roscosmos, the Russian space…
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Rockot launches Russian military satellites
Rockot lifts off Friday with three Rodnik satellites. Credit: Khrunichev A Rockot booster and Breeze upper stage delivered three Russian military communications satellites to orbit Friday after a launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) rocket fired out of a launcher tube at 0227 GMT Friday…
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Photos: Converted Russian ballistic missile fires into space with satellite
A decommissioned missile originally built in Russia to deliver nuclear weapons to intercontinental targets in the United States vaulted out of a vertical canister Friday and fired into space with a European satellite to monitor global air pollution. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot booster took off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1127:44 GMT…
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Modified Russian missile boosts Europe’s newest environmental sentinel to space
A Rockot booster made from decommissioned Russian military missile stages carried Europe’s Sentinel 5P satellite to orbit Friday. Credit: ESA A European satellite that will collect daily air quality measurements over every major city on Earth rode an uprated Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday. Assembled in Britain with a significant Dutch contribution, the Sentinel…
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Photos: Sentinel 5P environmental satellite prepared for liftoff
Europe’s Sentinel 5P satellite, fitted with a Dutch-developed spectrometer to measure gases in Earth’s atmosphere, was fueled and mated to its Russian Rockot booster over the last month at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military complex around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The 1,800-pound (820-kilogram) spacecraft is set for launch Friday at 0927:44 GMT…
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Live coverage: European environmental satellite launches from Russia
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rockot launcher with Europe’s Sentinel 5P environmental monitoring satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Russian satellite launched to measure Earth’s size and shape
The Rockot launcher with the GEO-IK 2 geodesy satellite blasted off at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT; 5 p.m. Moscow time) Saturday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian military spacecraft designed to map variations in Earth’s gravity field, rotation and tectonic movement reached orbit Sunday after a launch aboard a modified Soviet-era missile that…
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Look back on the blastoff of a Russian missile-turned-launcher
A Soviet-era missile originally built to deliver nuclear warheads to the United States in wartime fired into space for a much different purpose Tuesday, carrying a European environmental satellite into orbit to help track the effects of climate change. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot booster lifted off at 1757 GMT (12:57 p.m. EST; 8:57 p.m. local…
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European oceanography satellite rides Russian rocket into orbit
The Sentinel 3A satellite lifted off at 1757:40 GMT (12:57:40 p.m. EST). Credit: ESA Soaring into the night sky over a guarded Russian military base, a 1.2-ton European satellite rocketed into orbit Tuesday to regularly measure how the world’s oceans and ice sheets respond to climate change and drive global weather patterns. Valued at more…