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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Europe's Arianespace launched the Vega-C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a debut commercial mission.Carrying the ...
The orbit of the International Space Station ... The crewmembers will film the first ever movie on the ISS and return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on October 17.
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 ...