News Archive / Tagged: Rokot

• Russia launches final Rockot with trio of communications satellites

  SpaceFlight InsiderDecember 27th, 2019

  Russia launched its final mission on the nation's 2019 manifest when it sent three communications satellites to orbit on Friday, Dec. 27. The flight marked the close of a vehicle designed for violence.

• One of the final missions for Rokot booster lifts off from Plesetsk

  Jason RhianNovember 30th, 2018

  One of the last planned launches of a Rokot booster took to the skies above the Plesetsk Cosmodrone’s Site 133. It marked a rare flight of a rocket that can trace its lineage back to an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The flight lifted off at 05:00 MSK (9:00 p.m. EST) on Sept. 29, 2018.

• Rokot sends Europe’s Sentinel-3B Earth-observing satellite to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 25th, 2018

  A Russian Rokot booster took to the skies April 25, 2018, on a mission to orbit Sentinel-3B, the latest satellite for Europe’s Copernicus Earth-observation program. Liftoff took place at 1:57 p.m. EDT (17:57 GMT) from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

• Russian Rokot launcher to orbit Sentinel-3B Earth-observing satellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 23rd, 2018

  A Russian Rokot launch vehicle is poised to launch the European Sentinel-3B Earth-observing satellite to orbit at 1:57 p.m. EDT (17:57 GMT) April 25, 2018, from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. 

• Rokot launcher blasts off with Russian Geo-IK-2 geodesy satellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiJune 4th, 2016

  Russia successfully launched a Rokot booster on Saturday, June 4, carrying the country’s latest geodesy satellite. The spacecraft, named Geo-IK-2 No.12, lifted off at 10:00 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT) from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

• Russia to launch Geo-IK-2 satellite on Saturday amid protests in Canada

  Tomasz NowakowskiJune 4th, 2016

  Russia is gearing up to launch its newest Geo-IK-2 geodesy satellite atop a Rokot booster on Saturday, June 4. Launch preparations are underway – despite voices of concern being raised in Canada about the rocket's toxic fuel possibly polluting the waters near Ellesmere Island.

• Sentinel-3A Earth-observing satellite successfully launches from Plesetsk

  Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 16th, 2016

  Europe successfully launched the Sentinel-3A satellite on Tuesday, Feb. 16, expanding its fleet of Earth observation spacecraft. The satellite lifted off from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 12:57 p.m. EST (17:57 GMT) atop a Russian Rokot booster.

• European Sentinel-3A Earth observation satellite ready for launch from Plesetsk

  Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 15th, 2016

  A Russian Rokot booster stands ready at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in northern Russia. It is primed to send a European Earth-observing satellite into space on Tuesday, Feb. 16. The Sentinel-3A spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Plesetsk’s Site 133/3 at 12:57 p.m. EST (17:57 GMT).

• Russia launches three Rodnik military satellites into orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 25th, 2015

  The Russian Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) successfully launched a Rokot light-class carrier rocket with three Rodnik military satellites this week. The launch took place at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 23 (22:00 GMT; 1:00 a.m. Moscow Time Thursday, Sept. 24) from the launch site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Space Center, located in northwestern Russia.