August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... of decision-making and dispute resolution. Registration of the Iridium 33 communications satellite, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in September 1997, was accidentally omitted. In February 2009 The Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 communications...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... of a docking tunnel (the cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit KH-8 spy satellite photo of the first N-1 rocket on the launch pad. Lessons for the...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... whatsoever. In 2019, the spacecraft completed thermal vacuum tests in the company’s factory in advance of shipment to the Baikonur launch site for launch on a Proton rocket. MEV-1 will be followed into service by MEV-2, currently being assembled...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... two launch centres: one civil, one military, which parallels other countries (e.g. Cape Canaveral/Vandenberg and Baikonur/Plesetsk). The first one is 50 km from Semnan, the provincial capital, some 226 km east of Tehran. Originally, it was...
02 December 2014
Angara test launch
... launcher is able to fly from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on mainland Russia, without the need for access to the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan. In planning and development since 1992, the family of Angara launch vehicles will eventually be able...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... has much to ponder. Scientists and industry experts held their collective breath as Progress lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is expected to deliver 2, 381 kilos worth of supplies to the ISS on Sunday. Two of the most recent...
