02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
...operated by China, Shenzou is based around the Soyuz spacecraft after the nation signed a deal with Russia in 1995 for the... transfer of Soyuz technology, including life support and docking systems. While it ...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
Set to blast off tomorrow on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, .../dusk orbit at an altitude of 700 kilometres. Also hitching a ride on the Soyuz-Fregat launcher will be the first satellite of the Italian space agency ASI’s Cosmo...
04 April 2019
TELNET Group and GK Launch Services team up for satellite launch
... Services signed a contract for the launch of the first Tunisian Challenge ONE satellite aboard the Russian Soyuz-2.1a integrated with the Fregat upper stage in 2020. The signing ceremony chaired by Mr. Mohamed FRIKHA, CEO of TELNET...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... of dark matter and testing 3D biological printers to print organ-like tissues in microgravity. With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with Koch, Skvortsov, and Parmitano aboard, Expedition 62 officially began aboard the station, with NASA...
June 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... lead time. Many items produced for space activities are used only for spaceflight. So a decision about a Soyuz launch that will happen more than two years from now has already been taken, and...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
.... Tsetlin hopes that his models will help light all 64 steering and cruising thrust chambers of the Soyuz-2 rocket, due to launch from Vostochny cosmodrome in 2016. The work is being done in close cooperation with several...
