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 ...
Here’s how it works. A Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21). A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
"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 ...
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage carrying satellites ascends after blasting off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, Russia November ...
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 ...
For comparison, boosters such as the Soyuz, Falcon 9, and Atlas have success rates of 95% or higher. Further failures could erode customer trust in the relatively new rocket, which has only been ...