April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... commercial space launch industry. Well known launch sites such as Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral in the US, and Baikonur in Kazakhstan have enjoyed many decades of government funding, resulting in many launch complexes able to serve multiple LSPs...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... seems more likely the spacecraft was damaged during testing at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after passing initial checks and the mistake... at its production sites outside Moscow and at Baikonur. The leak was discovered last Wednesday (29 August...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... and NASA astronaut Anne McClain are scheduled for launch from Baikonur on 20 December but it’s not yet known whether the ... space agency) launched its Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle from Baikonur at 1440 local time. Everything appeared normal in its early...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
... join actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko for the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 am EDT (1:55 pm Baikonur time). Their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which has been upgraded so that a single person can pilot...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0738 GMT, an AFP correspondent...On launch day, Maezawa and his crew left their hotel in Baikonur to a Soviet-era song played for all cosmonauts ahead of ...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... of the space industry. In July 2013, there was an accident involving the heptylic launch rocket, Proton-M, at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Three GLONASS system satellites were lost, with damages amounting to about RUB 5 billion. Fortunately, no one...
