The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-06 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, June 17, 2017
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Russia’s Progress MS-06 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, conducting a fully automated rendezvous culminating in docking to the aft end of the complex to mark the delivery of 2,500 Kilograms of food fuel and supplies aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket arced into overcast skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, embarking on a nine-minute climb into orbit with the Progress MS-06 cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:20:13 UTC on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 with the Progress MS-06 spacecraft loaded with 2.5 metric tons of cargo
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:20:13 UTC on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 with the Progress MS-06 spacecraft loaded with 2.5 metric tons of cargo
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Russia’s Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle, tasked with carrying a Progress cargo ship into orbit on Wednesday, was moved to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday for the standard two-day on-pad campaign to prepare for countdown operations.
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A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M rocket blasted off from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:45 UTC on June 8, 2017 on a mission to deliver the 6,871-Kilogram EchoStar-21 mobile communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket soared into the skies over the remote Baikonur Cosmodrome again on Thursday, ending a year-long grounding with the launch of the EchoStar-21 mobile communications satellites – one of the vehicle’s heaviest Geotransfer payloads to date.
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A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M rocket blasted off from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:45 UTC on June 8, 2017 on a mission to deliver the 6,871-Kilogram EchoStar-21 mobile communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton rocket returned to its Baikonur launch pad for a long-awaited comeback mission, set to close a gap in Proton launch operations of a full year – the longest stand-down in the rocket’s five-decade service history.
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It was a warm summertime evening in the Kazakh steppe on Friday when a Soyuz Capsule carrying two ISS crew members from France and Russia parachuted to a safe landing one hour before sunset, closing out a half-year space mission that circled the Earth 3,136 times and covered over 130 million Kilometers.
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The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft returned from orbit on Friday, June 2, 2017 – landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan at 14:10 UTC to conclude a 3,136-orbit, 196-day 17-hour mission to the International Space Station
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The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft returned from orbit on Friday, June 2, 2017 – landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan at 14:10 UTC to conclude a 3,136-orbit, 196-day 17-hour mission to the International Space Station
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Two International Space Station crew members bound for home departed the orbiting laboratory on Friday to set sail on their return to Earth after over 196 days in orbit.
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A two-man crew is gearing up for their return to Earth after spending 197 days in space, making over 3,000 orbits around the planet. Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet are set for an early evening landing in south-central Kazakhstan on Friday
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A spent rocket body from a 1974 Molniya launch re-entered the atmosphere on May 31, 2017 after over four decades in orbit.
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The rumble of rocket launches returned to Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Thursday when a Soyuz 2-1B rocket blasted off from the site’s 43/4 complex with the second EKS missile warning satellite operated by the Russian armed forces.
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