soyuz
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Arianespace Reaches Deal With OneWeb, Setting Stage for Resumption of Suspended Launches
After having to cancel launches aboard Russian Soyuz rockets, British satellite company OneWeb has reached a settlement agreement with Arianespace that could see a resumption of the suspended launches.
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I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Written About How SpaceX Is About To Launch The Best Toilet Into Orbit
At about 8 pm EST today, the first all-civilian — as in no professional astronauts, no backing from a national space agency or military — crew will orbit the Earth in a commercial space capsule. This is a big deal, but all I can really focus on is the fact that the capsule will include…
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Boy, Did NASA Screw Up This One
NASA has rescinded an invitation to the chief of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, to visit its Houston facilities and speak at Rice University after members of Congress noted that Rogozin is currently prohibited from travelling to the U.S. under sanctions imposed over the situation in Ukraine, CNN reported.
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NASA Astronaut Shares Harrowing New Details About Failed Soyuz Launch
Nick Hague is back in the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket. The NASA astronaut has now described the incident to the Associated Press, explaining what happened after the Russian-built capsule flew away from the failing rocket at speeds reaching 6480km/h.