The Progress MS-02 cargo spacecraft was successfully launched on Thursday, riding into orbit atop a Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifting off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Sent on its way in an excellent orbit, Progress is planned to complete a two-day rendezvous with the Space Station to deliver 2,425 Kilograms of cargo.
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Countdown operations are underway at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a nighttime liftoff of a Soyuz 2-1A rocket carrying the Progress MS-02 spacecraft into orbit for a two-day trip to the International Space Station.
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Russia’s Soyuz launch vehicle rolled out to its launch pad at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome for the first time last week to begin the process of checking the new facility that is set to support Soyuz missions as early as April.
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A Soyuz rocket rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the morning on Tuesday, setting the stage for the launch of the Progress MS-02 cargo spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Thursday, successfully lifting the Bars-M No.2 mapping satellite to orbit in a nine-minute ascent mission taking the spacecraft into the expected Sun Synchronous Orbit.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket lifted off from the country’s primary military launch site at Plesetsk on Thursday, conducing a semi-secret mission only announced on short notice through air route restrictions.
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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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Just days after the blazing re-entry of the rocket from the launch of a three-man crew to the International Space Station dazzled observers in Newfoundland and Labrador, another Soyuz rocket stage was spotted re-entering over North America.
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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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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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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket stands tall atop its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for liftoff on Monday to deliver the Progress MS spacecraft into orbit for a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket rolls to the launch pad at Site 31/6 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 19, 2015 in preparation for the launch of the first Progress MS cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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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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