09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
As rocket launches go, the lift-off of a 58.2-metre (191-foot-tall) Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan within the last hour, was not particularly eventful – thankfully – but what was interesting ...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
..., Vandenberg, and Kwajalein is less than half the size of Russia’s Plesetsk launch facilities and the facilities at Baikonur. If we develop reusable rockets and one-stage, multi-environment launch vehicles we will no longer have areas affected...
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...
