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Following the Russian news agency Interfax's report, this was widely reported as life-threatening [74] [75] while NASA urged caution pending an investigation of the vehicle. [76] South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon was hospitalized after her return to South Korea due to injuries caused by the rough return voyage in the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft.
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 ...
The failed launch wasn't critical for supplies and maintenance of the station. [44] The failure was traced to several possible issues with the turbopump of RD-0110 engine on the third stage, which in turn caused failure of the oxidizer tank. [45] As a result, Progress MS-05 was delayed by three weeks to replace third stage engines on its launch ...
The Progress vehicle — one in a long series of resupply ships that have visited both the Russian and NASA-controlled portions of the space station — arrived at the ISS after launching from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
On 13 March, the KAIROS rocket from Space One company attempted its maiden flight. The rocket was destroyed in an explosion five seconds after lift-off. No injuries were caused by the explosion. On 11 April, another test flight of the Russian Angara A5 launched, with the Orion upper stage being used for the first time. [54] [55]