October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... engines. Russian ion, electron and plasma instruments will fly on China’s Zheng He mission to asteroid Kamooalewa in 2024. Soyuz 5 rocket and Progress plant, Samara, Russia. Ultimately, a Russia-China axis on the one hand and a US-led axis...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
... Kazakhstan at 4:55 am EDT (1:55 pm Baikonur time). Their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which has been upgraded so that a single person... 16 October (17 October Kazakhstan time) aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, who launched ...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
Following yesterday’s successful launch, Soyuz has safely deployed two further ...was Galileo’s last flight using a Soyuz rocket. From the end of 2016, further launches will proceed with a customised Ariane 5 rocket that will lift four satellites into ...
06 July 2020
Russia and Space Adventures sign contract to offer first tourist spacewalk
... and US space tourism firm Space Adventures revealed that a contract to send two tourists to the ISS aboard a Soyuz rocket has been signed by both parties and now the hunt is on for a willing participant to become the first...
15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
A Russian Soyuz rocket, carrying the first ever astronaut from ... Russian segment at approximately 12:24 p.m. EST (1724 GMT). The hatches will open between the Soyuz and space station are expected to be opened by 2:25 p.m EST (1925 GMT). The mission...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
... Space Station on a two day flight aboard a Soyuz rocket that has blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....inspire the public.” At 20:20 GMT tomorrow night, the rockets Soyuz engines will ignite and propel the plucky trio 1640 km...
