Showing posts with label Roscosmos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roscosmos. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasted off from Vostochny Spaceport carrying 2 Ionosphere-M satellites

Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasted off from Vostochny Spaceport carrying 2 Ionosphere-M satellites

Ionosphera-M, or Ionosfera-M (Ионосфера-М), is a satellite constellation consisting of four satellites owned and operated by the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.

Friday, November 10, 2023

The cargo ship Progress MC-24 took the ISS away from a collision with space debris

Progress MC-24

The Russian cargo ship Progress MC-24 took the ISS away from a collision with space debris, Roscosmos reported on the department’s telegram channel.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The crew of the Soyuz MS-23 (Союз МС 23) spacecraft returned to Earth after a year-long expedition

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Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned to Earth after completing the longest mission in history on the International Space Station - they spent 371 days in space. 

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Soyuz-2.1b Rocket With 42 Small Satellites Launched From Vostochny Cosmodrome - Roscosmos

Soyuz-2.1b Rocket

 Russia has launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Meteor-M weather satellite and 42 small spacecraft, including three foreign satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome, according to a broadcast by the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos on Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Progress MS-23 spacecraft carrying food, satellite, other cargo docks to ISS

Zvezda service module and the ‘Parus’

The Progress MS-23 spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday, docked to the ‘Poisk’ module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, according to a TASS reporter at the RKA Mission Control Center.

Friday, February 24, 2023

Russia launches Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft into orbit

Soyuz MS-23

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced that its Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was successfully launched into the planned orbit on Friday.

Friday, December 16, 2022

Roscosmos denies rise in temperature inside Soyuz MS-22 to 50 degrees - TASS

Roscosmos denies rise in temperature inside Soyuz MS-22 to 50 degrees

The temperature inside the Soyuz MS-22 crewed spacecraft never rose to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos told the media on Friday.

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Large asteroid to fly 4.8 mln km away from Earth - Roscosmos - TASS

Large asteroid to fly 4.8 mln km away from Earth

An asteroid having the diameter of 1.3 km will fly on March 4 at a distance over 4.8 mln km from our planet and will not collide with the Earth, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in its Telegram channel.

Friday, July 30, 2021

Russia's largest space module docks with ISS - China.org.cn

Nauka (Science) module


The Russian multifunctional Nauka (Science) module has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced Thursday.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Launch of Soyuz rocket rescheduled for December 1 over bad weather in Kourou-Roscosmos - TASS

Soyuz rocket

The launch of a Russian Soyuz-ST-A rocket with Falcon Eye 2 satellite for the United Arab Emirates from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana, was postponed until December 1 due to bad weather, Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin has said on Twitter.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Loss of Progress space vehicle probably caused by ‘foreign particles’ in pump

Presence of foreign particles inside the engine’s pump or violations of assembly procedures that occurred in the process of engine’s manufacturing may have been to blame for the loss of the Progress MS-04 cargo space vehicle last December, the Russian space corporation Roscosmos said on Wednesday.

Saturday, December 03, 2016

Fragment of Russian Progress Cargo Spacecraft Found in Siberia

Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists have found a fragment of the Russian Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft in Siberia, a ministry representative told RIA Novosti on Saturday.

Friday, December 02, 2016

No fragments of defunct Russian cargo spacecraft found at expected crash site

A search team of the fire-fighting garrison in the Ulug-Khemsky district of the Republic of Tyva in south Siberia has not found any fragments of the defunct Progress MS-04 spacecraft at the expected crash site, the regional emergencies services told TASS on Friday.

Thursday, December 01, 2016

Contact lost with Progress spaceship carrying 2.6 tons of cargo to ISS

The Russian space agency has reported disruption of the data signal with its Progress cargo spaceship, which was launched to deliver 2.6 tons of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).

Thursday, June 16, 2016

ExoMars sends first image of Red Planet — European Space Agency

The camera of the Russian-European inter-planetary space probe ExoMars has captured the first image of the Red Planet, where it is scheduled to arrive in October, the European Space Agency said.

Monday, May 02, 2016

Second stage of ExoMars project postponed to 2020 — Roscosmos

The second stage of ExoMars, a joint project of Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation and the European Space Agency (ESA), has been postponed from 2018 to 2020, the corporation has said.

Monday, March 14, 2016

Mars mission seeks to answer question of life on red planet

A European and Russian spacecraft has set off for Mars this morning on a mission aimed at determining one of science's great unanswered questions - whether or not there is life on the red planet.