December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... 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 industrial partners: Keldysh Center, NPO Energomash...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... 2014, can so far only be launched from Plesetsk, which limits its capabilities. A new launch pad on the Vostochny cosmodrome will not be completed until 2020. If the rocket proves itself to be statistically reliable, it may be later used for...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
The past year was a busy one for the launch industry, not only in terms of actual launches, but also by way of promises for the future. Here, space launch analyst and seasoned ‘number-cruncher’ David Todd highlights the ‘four Cs’ that dominate the ...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... guidelines would be a good place to start. A Soyuz rocket, with 36 OneWeb satellites aboard, launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in March 2021, taking its in-orbit constellation to 146 spacecraft. About the author Mert Evirgen is a First Class...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
...) with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos meteorology mission Meteor-M No2-1 at 14:41:46 (JST) from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome and once operational, it will be tasked with monitoring the size and position of space debris to create...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... the spacecraft during crucial tests. "The launch of the Luna-25 automatic inter-planetary station from the Vostochny Cosmodrome has been specified and scheduled for the second possible ‘launch window’ in May 2022," Roscosmos told...
