The in-flight abort resulted in the safe recovery of the two crewmembers, a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut, and briefly grounded the Soyuz rocket family as Roscosmos conducted a ...

The Soyuz-2 family is a modernized version of earlier Soyuz rockets, incorporating digital flight control systems and upgraded engines. It consists of three rockets: Soyuz-2-1a is a modernized ...

Soyuz failure as seen from the ground. To anyone who’s watched Soyuz (or more accurately, the R-7 family of rockets which the Soyuz is derived from) launches in the past, it was immediately ...

DUBAI, October 26. /TASS/. Four Russian space rockets of the Soyuz family are to be launched from the Kourou space site in French Guiana next year, the CEO of Roscosmos corporation, Dmitry Rogozin ...

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 ...

A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the high-resolution ... It will be the two-thousandth for the R-7 family of rockets - the corresponding mark is printed on the third stage of the rocket.

Just before dawn on the icy plains of Central Asia, a giant hanger door opens and a train towing a 2,000 tonne Soyuz rocket rolls to the launch pad in the morning light. On launch day, three ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket with three astronauts bound for the International Space Station was aborted at the last minute on Thursday morning, March 21. Knewz.com has learned the abort was triggered ...