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Newly-released footage appeared to show Russia's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) hitting Ukraine. Video posted on Telegram, and verified by the Associated Press, showed ...
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 Molniya-M (Russian: Молния, lit. 'lightning', GRAU index: 8K78M) was a Soviet and Russian launch vehicle derived from the R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). [1] [2] The original 8K78 booster had been the product of a rushed development program and its launch record was no better than the 8K72 Luna booster of 1958 ...
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.
State news agency RIA-Novosti said the cause was failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank of the central block of the rocket. Russia's second attempt to test-launch a new heavy ...
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 ...
As of 2022, it remains the only time a launch escape system has been fired before launch with a crew aboard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Soyuz T-10-1 explosion would also remain the only instance of a Russian crewed booster accident in 35 years, until the Soyuz MS-10 flight aborted shortly after launch on 11 October 2018 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] due to a failure of the ...
Strela launch vehicle launch 19.12.2014 Strela ( Russian : Стрела , arrow ) is a Russian orbital carrier rocket , derived from the Soviet /Russian UR-100NU missile. It conducted its maiden test launch on 5 December 2003 , carried its first functional payload on 27 June 2013, [ 12 ] and a second one on 19 December 2014.