07 December 2018
Misplaced satellites provide highest accuracy yet of Einstein's theory
... the two Galileo satellites (5 and 6) were not where they were supposed to be. Launched back in 2014, a malfunctioning Soyuz upper stage rocket stranded the satellites in orbits that were too elliptical to be used for their intended...
23 January 2019
Construction of Russian super-heavy rocket gets approval
... (LEO). Khrunichev will supply the third stage of the super-heavy rocket as part of this project, while Soyuz-5 elements will be used as the first stage. Yenisey on the other hand is designed to take over 70 tonnes of payload...
01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
... is comfortable enough however with flying it to the ISS uncrewed. NASA has become reliant on buying seats on Russian Soyuz rockets to send its astronauts to the ISS after it ended its space-shuttle program in 2011. Accordingly, this...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
... the International Space Station when he made his first flight into space in October 2012 as a member of the Soyuz TMA-06M crew. Some of the experiments that will be conducted include effective training methods to counteract the...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... on US soil and not have to rely on our Russian partners, and this is just a huge step forward.” Relying on Soyuz vehicles to take crew to and from the ISS has been something of a bugbear for NASA and so for...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... Starlink mega-constellation into a low-Earth orbit (LEO) and currently sat at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, is a Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network due for lift off on Thursday. This...
