Astro Digital – Spaceflight Now

September 19, 2017

Breaking News

[ September 17, 2017 ] Dragon capsule splashes down in Pacific with space station cargo Mission Reports
[ September 17, 2017 ] Chinese space station freighter concludes refueling demo mission Mission Reports
[ September 17, 2017 ] Live coverage: SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Earth Mission Reports
[ September 16, 2017 ] Photos: NROL-42 payload joins Atlas 5 booster for launch Atlas 5
[ September 16, 2017 ] Fact sheet: Atlas 5 rocket to launch the NROL-42 mission from Vandenberg Atlas 5

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.