Tag: Clyde Space
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Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage deliver 33 satellites to three different orbits
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off at 0541 GMT (1:41 a.m. EDT) Friday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia. Credit: Roscosmos A new Russian weather satellite, a CubeSat to test a Silicon Valley startup’s water-based propulsion system, and eight more members of Spire’s commercial fleet of nanosatellites were among 33 spacecraft that rode a Soyuz…
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Live coverage: Soyuz rideshare mission lifts off from Vostochny Cosmodrome
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia with 33 satellites on-board. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. The Russian webcast of the launch will begin at 0440 GMT (12:40 a.m. EDT), and will be available on this page.
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Russian Soyuz launcher set to carry 33 satellites into orbit
Russian ground teams prepare to encapsulate the mission’s 33 satellite payloads, and their Fregat upper stage, inside the payload fairing of the Soyuz-2.1b booster at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz rocket is scheduled for liftoff Friday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia’s newest launch site, with 33 satellites from 12 countries on-board to collect…
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Testbed for Canadian data relay network successfully launched from China
A Long March 11 rocket lifted off at 0412 GMT Friday (11:12 p.m. EST Thursday) with a pathfinder satellite for Kepler Communications and five Chinese payloads. Credit: Kepler Communications A nanosatellite built in Scotland for Kepler Communications, a Toronto company planning a 140-satellite global data relay network, rode to orbit Friday with five Chinese satellites…