Designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace’s launcher family numbering system, the medium-lift Soyuz carries a mixed payload of the Sentinel-1B C-band radar observation platform, a trio of “Fly Your Satellite!” technology demonstrator CubeSats, and the Microscope scientific satellite.
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The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 36 crew has launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are flying aboard a Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on an “accelerated” six hour mission to the ISS.
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After a one day delay, Arianespace says the launch of the Pleiades 1B aboard an Arianespace-Soyuz vehicle was successfully achieved on the evening of 1 December 2012,...
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Without much additional detail, Arianespace says the launch of the Pleiades 1B aboard an Arianespace-Soyuz vehicle was postponed due to “an anomaly” detected during the countdown.
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Read MoreThere are published unconfirmed reports that the most recent launch of a Soyuz-2 unmanned rocket has ended in failure. Apparently, at approximately seven minutes after...
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