News Archive / Tagged: Baikonur Cosmodrome

• Russia threatens to not launch OneWeb satellites

  Derek RichardsonMarch 2nd, 2022

  OneWeb has become the latest pawn of Roscosmos in the declining relations between Russia and the West after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Progress MS-18 cargo ship begins two-day chase of space station

  Derek RichardsonOctober 27th, 2021

  Russia's unpiloted Progress MS-18 cargo spacecraft has launched into space on a two-day trek to meet up with the International Space Station.

• Soyuz rocket launches 9th batch of OneWeb satellites

  Theresa CrossAugust 23rd, 2021

  A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the ninth mission for the OneWeb internet constellation, which now numbers 288 satellites.

• Progress MS-17 cargo freighter sent on a two-day trek to ISS

  Derek RichardsonJune 29th, 2021

  Just before dawn, Russia’s Progress MS-17 cargo spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to send supplies to the International Space Station.

• ISS Expedition 64 crew launches to ISS in record time

  Cullen DesforgesOctober 16th, 2020

  On Wednesday, October 14 at 1:45 AM EDT, three astronauts and their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft left the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six month mission to the International Space Station.

• Progress MS-12 makes fast-track flight to ISS

  Derek RichardsonJuly 31st, 2019

  Two orbits after launching from Kazakhstan, Russia’s Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with the International Space Station.

• Progress MS-11 launches toward ISS on 2-orbit trek

  Derek RichardsonApril 4th, 2019

  Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1a rocket with the latest Progress resupply freighter bound for the International Space Station.

• Soyuz MS-12 trio launches toward ISS, joins Expedition 59 crew

  Michael ColeMarch 14th, 2019

  Cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch launched in their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft to travel to the ISS for a six-month stay.

• Update: Soyuz delivers EgyptSat-A into orbit, despite potential issue

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 21st, 2019

  Russia's Soyuz launcher delivered a satellite into orbit but a potential issue during launch may have prompted the fourth stage to perform extra work.

• Blagovest-13L launched by Russian Proton rocket

  Heather SmithDecember 21st, 2018

  Lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Proton-M rocket soared into the sky to orbit a military satellite called Blagovest-13L.

• Gallery: Soyuz FG rocket returns to service with MS-11 flight

  Jason RhianDecember 3rd, 2018

  BAIKONUR COSMODRONE, Kazkhstan. — A crew of three blasted off atop a Soyuz-FG rocket at 6:31 a.m. EST (11:31 GMT) on Dec. 3, 2018, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nine minutes later, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques were in orbit.

• Crewed flights to ISS resume with Soyuz MS-11 launch

  Derek RichardsonDecember 3rd, 2018

  Normalcy begins to return to International Space Station operations as the crew of Soyuz MS-11 has successfully launched from Baikonur.

• Soyuz-FG to return to flight with Progress MS-10 resupply mission

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 15th, 2018

  Russia’s Soyuz-FG is slated to return to flight with the launch of the Progress MS-10 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

• Soyuz MS-10 fails to reach orbit, crew safe – UPDATE

  Derek RichardsonOctober 11th, 2018

  The spacecraft's escape system safely pulled Soyuz MS-10 with its two-person crew away from the failed booster.

• Progress MS-09 set for fast-track rendezvous with ISS

  Derek RichardsonJuly 7th, 2018

  Continuing a busy period for the International Space Station’s Expedition 56 crew, an automated Russian Progress cargo spacecraft is set to launch to the orbiting outpost. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:51 p.m. EDT (21:51 GMT) July 9, 2018, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.