Since the 70s, the Soyuz has carried crews to and from Earth's orbit relatively cheaply, and without any deaths since 1971. At the same time, the reliance on Soyuz left Russian cosmonauts little ...
A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket will blast off in ... Over 140 small satellites have been delivered into a low near-Earth orbit jointly with the launches under the federal space program since 2014 ...
This combined the three-stage Soyuz booster with the restartable Fregat-M, which can deploy its payload directly into medium Earth orbit. Soyuz lifted off from Pad 3 of Site 43 at the Plesetsk ...
After 168 days in orbit, three crewmembers of the International Space Station returned to Earth on Sunday. Soyuz MS-07 Commander Anton Shkaplerov, as well as Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai ...
Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days in orbit and return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who has been on the ISS since April.