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...
12 April 2021
60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
... flight. His historic mission, which took off from the Tyuratam test range in Kazakhstan (now the Baikonur Cosmodrome), lasted just 108 minutes – the time it took to complete one loop around the Earth, before...
16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
.... The Client satellite will be mounted on the Servicer in early 2020. ELSA-d is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Soyuz from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... buildup of hazardous space debris in low Earth orbit.” ELSA-d is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. SSTL is at the forefront of space debris mitigation and removal activities and is the satellite...
06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
...'s SpaceX. Actress Yulia Peresild, 37, and film director Klim Shipenko, 38, took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan as scheduled. "I'm still, I still feel that it's all a dream," Shipenko said after entering the...
