Soyuz U – the world’s most-flown and longest-serving rocket – made its final blastoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, capping a 44-year career by lifting the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft into orbit on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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Russia’s final Soyuz U rocket rolled to its historic Baikonur Launch Pad on Monday to end a career of over four decades with what is hoped to be a successful Return to Flight mission on Wednesday, lifting off with the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft – the first Russian cargo delivery to ISS after December’s Soyuz U launch failure.
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Russia’s Proton-M Rocket conducted its first launch of the year Wednesday night, successfully lifting the Eutelsat 9B spacecraft to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a flight lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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A Russian Proton rocket raced into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, embarking on a long overnight mission to deliver the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set to open a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes on Friday, lifting the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a mission lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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A Proton-M rocket with the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite hidden under its fairing rolls to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in thick fog, setting up for a nighttime liftoff.
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A Proton-M rocket with the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite hidden under its fairing rolls to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in thick fog, setting up for a nighttime liftoff.
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Thursday night’s Proton-M/Briz-M launch delivered the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to its intended orbit, orbital data issued by the Joint Space Operations Center indicates.
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A Russian Proton rocket thunders into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning its year-ending mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Proton-M rocket climbed into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, starting a long overnight mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to orbit and close out a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket suffered a rare launch scrub Wednesday night as unfavorable winds aloft forced a 24-hour delay of the planned launch of the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set for its year-closing mission on Wednesday, launching the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Russian government-operated Proton-M rocket rolls to its Baikonur Launch Pad to prepare for its year-closing mission, lifting the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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The Progress MS spacecraft made a flawless rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station on Wednesday, arriving at the orbiting laboratory for a stay of eight months, facilitating the transfer of over 2,400 Kilograms of cargo delivered by the spacecraft.
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The Progress MS spacecraft was inserted into a very accurate orbit by its Soyuz 2-1A carrier rocket according to orbital data published by the Russian Mission Control Center.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday at 8:44 UTC carrying the first in an upgraded series of Progress cargo resupply craft to orbit on a mission to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifts off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 21, 2015 on a nine-minute ride into orbit to put the Progress MS spacecraft on a course toward the International Space Station for a two-day rendezvous.
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