19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
... Space Station (ISS) on Thursday 22 August, it not only marks the start of flight trials of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft and the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, but it will also carry an interesting payload onboard; a humanoid robot known as Skybot F-850...
27 November 2019
Russia launches secret space surveillance satellite
...was launched into orbit on Monday onboard a modified Soyuz rocket, said officials at the country’s Defence Ministry... and 2015 respectively. The fourth, Cosmos-2519, was launched on a Soyuz-2-1v rocket on 23 June, 2017. The satellite is a product of ...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
Euclid is due for launch on a Soyuz-Fregat from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, by mid-2021. The optical/near-infrared survey mission, ...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... development of new satellites and rocket launchers, the country is playing a key role in international space activities. On 23 July at 3:04 am, Soyuz TMA-17M rocket launched successfully into the clear, pitch-black sky over the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
...western companies, the most improbable being launching the Soyuz rocket from the European Union territory of French ... of GLONASS satellites and two Progress freighters. Even a Soyuz malfunctioned, the occupants (Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Hague) ...
21 August 2020
A small air leak has been found on the International Space Station, says NASA
... Expedition 1 crew arrived at the station 2 November, 2000.” The crew members will also have access to their Soyuz MS-16 crew ship which could whisk them back to Earth in the event of a problem; though it is unlikely it will be needed...
