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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.
The Spaceport's new Soyuz launch site has been handling Soyuz launches since 21 October 2011, the date of the first launch. [7] As of December 2019, 19 Guiana Soyuz launches had been made from French Guiana Space Centre , all successful.
An enhanced variant, the Phase III Proton-M/Briz-M launch vehicle, was flight proven on the Russian Federal dual mission of Express AM-44 and Express MD-1 in February 2009 and performed its first commercial launch in March 2010 with the Echostar XIV satellite.
launch V. Polyakov landing: Visited Mir (20). Returned cosmonaut from Soyuz TM-18. 74: Soyuz TM-21: 14 March 1995: 181 d 0 h 41 m 6 s: 11 September 1995: V. Dezhurov launch A. Solovyev landing: G. Strekalov launch N. Budarin landing: N. Thagard launch: Visited Mir (21). First launch of American astronaut. Crew was returned by STS-71; returned ...
The R-7 (Russian: Р-7) rocket family is a series of launch vehicles descended from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka, developed in the 1950s as the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). While the R-7 proved impractical as a weapon, it became a cornerstone of the Soviet and subsequent Russian space programs.
Russia's Soyuz rocket blasted off from its Plesetsk launch site some 500 miles (805 km) north of Moscow on May 16, deploying in low-Earth orbit at least nine satellites including COSMOS 2576, a ...
'Union‑2.1c', [a] GRAU index: 14A15) [3] known early in development as the Soyuz‑1, is a expendable Russian small-lift launch vehicle. It is derivative of the Soyuz‑2 but utilizing a single core stage (no boosters) built around the powerful NK-33 engine, 50-year-old refurbished remnants from the Soviet N1 moon rocket.
Two U.S. researchers say they have identified the probable deployment site in Russia of the 9M370 Burevestnik, a new nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile touted by President Vladimir ...