Tag: Plesetsk

First Angara Rocket Ready to Ship to Launch Site
By 2013.05.24 0 Comments Read More →

First Angara Rocket Ready to Ship to Launch Site

Source : RIA Novosti After a seemingly endless development program stretching back into the 1990’s, the first booster in a long anticipated family of new Russian launch vehicles has completed testing and is being prepared to ship to the northern spaceport of Plesetsk. It will still be some time before launch however, as the Angara “light” is […]

Posted in: Launch Vehicle Development, Russian Space
Soyuz Launch Number 1803
By 2013.04.26 0 Comments Read More →

Soyuz Launch Number 1803

Source : RIA Novosti Extending a record which is no danger of being broken any time soon, the Russian Soyuz made the 1803rd successful launch of incredible career today, carrying a GLONASS navigation satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the far north. GLONASS is the Russian counterpart to American GPS,  and like GPS it is a dual use system for both […]

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