The boosters are powered by RD-107A engines ... replacing analog systems that were used on previous versions of the rocket. Soyuz-2-1b is one of three modernized Soyuz-2 configurations that ...

A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS). Shortly after ...

Russian officials are investigating the cause of a booster problem that forced a Soyuz rocket capsule to make an emergency landing just after launch. The two crew members, Russian cosmonaut Alexey ...

"A problem in one of the booster’s cables was revealed during ... been scheduled from the Kourou spaceport using Russian Soyuz carrier rockets. Next on the list is the launch of the second ...

The Soyuz-FG is the same rocket variant that suffered an in-flight ... following last month’s crew Soyuz abort at first stage booster separation. The in-flight abort resulted in the safe ...

TASS/. The Soyuz-FG booster incident occurred after a sensor that signals the separation of the first and second stages was deformed during the rocket’s assembly at the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...

The success is especially impressive considering the Soyuz’s launch abort tower, the solid fuel rocket designed to pull the spacecraft away from the failing booster rocket, had already been ...

Nozzle woes in the past for continent's new launcher Arianespace's Vega C is set to make a return to flight this evening, ...

Luckily for future space-faring generations, captains of the Soviet rocket industry put the Soyuz into mass production long before it completed its flight testing. Although Soyuz was eventually a ...

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(Reuters) - Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones ...