The Soyuz-5 was originally set to launch by the end of the year from the new Baiterek facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia’s main space launch site, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Russia and Kazakhstan have delayed the first launch under their joint Baiterek space project, pushing back the debut of the Russian Soyuz 5 rocket to allow for additional checks.
A "single point of failure" was the exact phrase that went through my mind when I read that the first stage was a single massive engine. Click to expand... While you're not wrong, that's not unique of ...
MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation and Kazakhstan’s National Space Agency Kazcosmos have decided to postpone the first launch of the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket. The decision ...
A SOYUZ 2.1b rocket successfully placed 52 satellites into low Earth orbit on Dec. 28 after lifting off from Russia’s ...