R-7 Current Affairs, GK & News

Russia launchs rocket carrying life-sized robot “Fedor” to International Space Station

Russia has launched a rocket carrying life-sized robot to the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is set to arrive at the station on Saturday. The robot, named Fedor (Experimental Demonstration Object Research), is the first ever sent into space by Russia. Fedor stands some one metre and 80 centimetres tall ..

Topics: FEDOR • International Space Station • Military of Russia • Outer space • R-7 • Soyuz • Spacecraft • Spaceflight

SOYUZ Spacecraft successfully reached ISS

Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying  NASA Astronaut Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin has successfully docked International Space Station. The International Space Station is a habitable  artificial satellite in  low Earth orbit.  Soyuz is a Russian Spacecraft carries people and supplies to and from the space station.

Topics: Expedition 58 • International Space Station • Nick Hague • Outer space • R-7 • Soyuz • SOYUZ aircraft • Soyuz MS-12 • Soyuz program • Spacecraft • Spaceflight

Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos docked to International Space Station

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos has successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew members will spend more than six months conducting about 250 science investigations in fields such as biology, Earth science, human research, ..

Topics: Aleksey Ovchinin • In spaceflight • Outer space • R-7 • Soyuz • Soyuz program • Soyuz TMA-03M • Soyuz TMA-21 • Spacecraft • Spaceflight

Russia’s Soyuz-FG Carrier rocket sets 5 Satellites into Orbit

Russia’s Soyuz-FG carrier rocket set off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket will put the following 5 satellites into orbit:- 1) Russian satellite Canopus-B 2) Russian Satellite MKA-PN1 3) Belarusian satellite BKA 4) Canadian satellite ADS-1B 5) German satellite TET-1 Russian satellite Canopus-B Developed by the All-Russia Research Institute of ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2012

Topics: Outer space • R-7 • Satellite • Soyuz • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • TET-1