MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The first launch of a Soyuz-FG booster after the October 11 incident has been scheduled for November 16 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a source in the domestic space ...

Despite its smooth liftoff, the Soyuz’s booster malfunctioned between the first and second stages of separating, whereupon the crew was forced to abort the flight and switch to ballistic descent.

This combined the three-stage Soyuz booster with the restartable Fregat-M, which can deploy its payload directly into medium Earth orbit. Soyuz lifted off from Pad 3 of Site 43 at the Plesetsk ...

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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 ...

Russia's first space launch in 2025 also marked the final mission of its Soyuz-2.1v light launcher, with the country ...

The Soyuz-FG rocket launched at 08:40 local time ... the US space agency Nasa reported a problem with the booster rocket between the first and second stages of separating. Live video of the ...

On this date, Jan. 15, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5. The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first ...