16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
... to the International Space Station on a two day flight aboard a Soyuz rocket that has blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Pesquet, a former airline pilot, will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
... reach its destination with the aid of ILS’s Proton Breeze M vehicle when it blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a couple of years. The Proton Breeze M has launched 416 times since its maiden launch...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019 NASA are on their own, as the agency hasn't committed to buying any...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... new meaning. Due for delivery onboard a Soyuz MS-11 manned transportation spacecraft set for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, is a copy of an Organ-Avt bioprinter – a device used to grow living tissue. The printer, a version of which could...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... 60 more satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation into a low-Earth orbit (LEO) and currently sat at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, is a Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network due for lift...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... removal in lower earth orbit (LEO). This ground-breaking mission will launch Saturday, 20 March from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services and will be operated from the UK at the Satellite Applications Catapult...
