Astro Digital – Spaceflight Now

July 25, 2017

Breaking News

[ July 22, 2017 ] NASA might privatize one of its great observatories News
[ July 22, 2017 ] Sierra Nevada confirms ULA will launch first two Dream Chaser cargo missions News
[ July 21, 2017 ] Opportunity rover peers into ‘Perseverance Valley’ News
[ July 21, 2017 ] Study teams comb through NASA’s wish list for new telescope News
[ July 19, 2017 ] Propulsive landings nixed from SpaceX’s Dragon spaceship News

Soyuz liftoff glimpsed by orbiting observer and launch pad cameras

July 19, 2017

The launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket July 14 with more than 70 satellites was captured in multiple views from a sharp-eyed orbiting nanosatellite and cameras positioned around the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Soyuz rocket lifts off with 73 satellites

July 14, 2017

A Russian Soyuz booster lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan on a complex mission to deploy 73 satellites into three different orbits, including a Russian spacecraft to locate forest fires, 48 CubeSats for Planet’s global Earth observation fleet, and eight nanosatellites for Spire Global’s commercial weather network.

Soyuz rolled out for launch of multinational satellite cluster

July 12, 2017

A Soyuz rocket arrived at a launch pad Tuesday in Kazakhstan for liftoff later this week with a satellite to monitor natural disasters and track forest fires from orbit and 72 secondary payloads from Russia, the United States, Germany, Norway and Japan.