VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, September 6. /TASS/. The jet engine RD-180 will be used in creating a new generation medium class rocket Soyuz-6, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin told the media on Friday.
Soyuz-2, which was the first version of the Soyuz to use digital flight control systems, as well as incorporating upgraded engines and further modernizations, first flew in 2004. For Sunday’s ...
"is ready in principle" for serial production of the RD-171MV rocket engine designed for the first stage of the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket, head of the enterprise Igor Arbuzov told TASS on the ...
Roscosmos Soyuz touches down in Kazakhstan with a help of a parachute and soft-landing rocket engines. Because of these cramped quarters, it's impossible to squeeze any extra passengers into the ...
A Russian Soyuz rocket capsule was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after launch last month because of a faulty sensor, investigators say. Russian officials believe the component was ...
Russia has launched a new satellite to replenish its GLONASS navigation system Tuesday, via a Soyuz-2-1b rocket with a Fregat-M upper stage. The launch took place at 11:54 Moscow Time (08:54 UTC ...
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky was conducting engine tests on the Soyuz spaceship, which is docked to the ISS, on Friday morning when its thrusters fired too aggressively. That moved the station out of ...
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 ...