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Kosmos-3M launch vehicle: Launch explosion of Kosmos-3M rocket 18 March 1980: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR: 48: Vostok-2M launch vehicle: Explosion while fueling up a Vostok-2M rocket [104] 7 September 1990: Edwards AFB, CA United States: 1: Titan IV: A Titan IV launch vehicle solid rocket booster was being hoisted by a crane into a rocket test ...
The only orbital launch of a Buran-class orbiter, 1K1 (1К1: first orbiter, first flight [25]) occurred at 03:00:02 UTC on 15 November 1988 from Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 110/37. [4] [26] Buran was lifted into space, on an uncrewed mission, by the specially designed Energia rocket. The automated launch sequence performed as specified, and ...
Launch Duration Landing Crew Notes 66: Soyuz TM-13: 2 October 1991: 175 d 2 h 51 m 44 s: 25 March 1992: A. Volkov: T. Aubakirov launch S. Krikalev landing: F. Viehböck launch K.-D. Flade landing: Visited Mir (13). This mission was launched during the Soviet era, but the country dissolved while the craft was in orbit. It returned cosmonauts ...
The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket, a class of super heavy-lift launch vehicle. Besides describing the first operational Soviet/Russian shuttle orbiter, "Buran" was also the designation for the entire Soviet/Russian spaceplane project and its flight articles, which were known as "Buran-class orbiters".
For Thursday's flight, major test objectives included restarting a Raptor engine in space and the deployment of 10 dummy Starlink mockups to test a new satellite delivery system that works a bit ...
Soyuz (Russian: Союз, lit. 'union', GRAU index: 11A511) is a family of Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicles initially developed by the OKB-1 design bureau and manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Centre factory in Samara, Russia.
Russia began the Angara project a few years after the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union as a Russian-made launch vehicle that would ensure access to space even without the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
Sounding rockets of Russia (2 P) Pages in category "Space launch vehicles of Russia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.