Russia’s Soyuz rocket made a pre-dawn liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Sunday morning, flying toward the sunrise to deliver the Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft to orbit for a resupply flight to the Space Station.
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A busy week is coming up for the International Space Station with a pair of cargo craft inbound to keep up a steady chain of supplies for the six crew members living and working in orbit, circling the Earth 400 Kilometers in altitude.
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Bars-M mapping and reconnaissance imaging satellite re-entered the atmosphere over Indonesia on March 1, 2016 after one year in orbit.
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The year 2015 saw 87 orbital launch attempts from spaceports across the globe – 84 missions reached orbit in a year that saw 82 successful orbital launches. Here are photos of all of 2015’s space launches.
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The year 2015 saw a total of 87 known orbital launch attempts operated by seven nations from space ports in eight countries.
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The launch of the Progress MS-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station is slipping one month from November
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The third Stage of the Soyuz U rocket that launched the Progress M-29M spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday over the Pacific Ocean.
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A Soyuz U rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 16:49 UTC on Thursday, successfully sending the Progress M-29M cargo craft into orbit for an express rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz U rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 16:49 UTC on Thursday, successfully sending the Progress M-29M cargo craft into orbit for an express rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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The Progress M-29M spacecraft en-route to the International Space Station has been delivered to an accurate orbit that will permit the spacecraft to proceed with the planned express rendezvous taking just over six hours from launch to docking.
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The Progress M-29M cargo spacecraft is en-route to the International Space Station, heading into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz U rocket on Thursday. Blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 16:49 UTC, Soyuz lit up the night skies as it began chasing the Space Station that had passed over the launch site just minutes before.
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A Soyuz rocket was rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for Thursday’s planned liftoff with the Progress M-29M spacecraft, set for a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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