October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...installation, including the fitting of the solar panels, was completed before being shipped to the launch site of Plesetsk in Northern Russia in preparation for an October 2017 launch. Once in orbit it will certainly be a satellite that punches above...
27 November 2019
Russia launches secret space surveillance satellite
... officials at the country’s Defence Ministry. The mission lifted off from the Site 43 launch complex at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which is roughly 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of Moscow, at 17:52 GMT (16:52 Moscow time) Monday. "The spacecraft...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... Launch Site in Hainan, China, are well known, even considered tourist attractions, while others such as the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia are relatively unknown and Kapustin Yar, in Russia, is officially secret. Some, such as the Baikonur...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... Convention is through national space legislation. A Russian Meridian satellite being prepared for display at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome prior to a visit by President Vladimir Putin in 2004. However, as the inconsistent registration practice of States...
02 December 2014
Angara test launch
...-Russian manufacturers, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center. This 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...
16 February 2016
Sentinel-3A poised for liftoff later today
The third Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus Programme, Sentinel-3A, will be launched from the Russian Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 GMT today. Sentinel-3A carries a suite of sophisticated instruments that will measure Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...
