Show threadSpaceflight 🚀2d ago
#Russia launched a #Soyuz rocket from a repaired launch pad at its ​#Baikonur cosmodrome https://www.reuters.com/science/russia-launches-first-rocket-repaired-baikonur-launch-pad-2026-03-22/
@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!4d ago

Just finished reading the third in the #Apollo Murders series by Canadian polymath Chris #Hadfield. I’ve very much enjoyed the first two and the third is just as good; possibly even a titch better.

I sincerely hope he writes more, even if not in the same series. He’s got great skill at the thriller genre; at the same level as Bagley or Deighton. He’s just that good.

Honestly, Commander Hadfield is seemingly able to perfectly do anything he puts his hand to. Novelist, astronaut and ISS commander, fighter test pilot, musician (he did a Bowie cover IN SPACE!!), author of a children’s book and his memoirs, owns a 55 T-Bird and Piper Comanche which get used regularly… Honestly, he’s making the rest of us look bad and needs to do something poorly! Bah!

I’m kidding, but he does seem to be perfect at anything he puts his mind to.

Read these books. You’ll thank me later.

Very highly recommended

★★★★★

[my copy is signed!]

#review #BooksTodon #Space #Thriller #1970s #Soyuz

Ars Technica NewsMar 16
A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites https://arstechni.ca/UkXH #favoritelaunches #robertgoddard #Spaceshuttle #Features #falcon9 #Space #soyuz #space
A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

I realized that if something went wrong up there, things might go very badly down here."

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Ars Technica NewsMar 6
Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad https://arstechni.ca/3TrF #spacelaunchsystem #rocketreport #roscosmos #pldspace #sentinel #starship #launch #spacex #Space #soyuz #ICBM
Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

It looks like United Launch Alliance will build more upper stages for NASA's SLS rocket.

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KillBaitMar 6

Baikonur’s Area 31 Launch Pad Restored for Manned and Cargo Soyuz Flights

📰 Original title: La rampa del Área 31 de Baikonur vuelve a estar operativa

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/baikonurs-area-31-launch-pad-restored-for-manned-and-cargo-soyuz-flights/?redirpost=65b078c6-2f20-44ec-8087-93254428bd49

#astronomy #baikonur #roscosmos #soyuz

Baikonur’s Area 31 Launch Pad Restored for Manned and Cargo Soyuz Flights

Russia has restored the only launch pad at Baikonur capable of sending manned Soyuz spacecraft and Progress cargo ships to the International Space Station (ISS). On November 27, 2025…

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Karl UrbanFeb 16

It is not a Korolev Cross but some kind of cross after all!

#Ariane64 #Soyuz

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6gxhcdmptn26veyiaxh5ikj/post/3mexrirqoes2u

Andrew Parsonson (@andrewparsonson.bsky.social)

Ariane 64 booster separation from the ground. Video credit: ESA / ArianeGroup / Arianespace / CNES

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jan 9

The Barents Sea supports the world's largest cod #fishery 🎣. #Hydrazine fuels are known to cause #cancer after respiratory exposure or ingestion in humans. #Russia has dropped rocket 🚀 stages fueled with unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (#UDMH) into the Barents Sea. The #ESA should encourage Russia to move to its new generation of #Soyuz and #Angara rockets https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/toxic-splash-russian-rocket-stages-dropped-in-arctic-waters-raise-health-environmental-and-legal-concerns/EAC6047606BDFFE6F8361F91EF02D14B#sec10

#RokotM launches 2026 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_October%E2%80%93December_2026

Rockot : https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/SMOS/Launcher

#DinitrogenTetroxide #Plesetsk

Toxic splash: Russian rocket stages dropped in Arctic waters raise health, environmental and legal concerns | Polar Record | Cambridge Core

Toxic splash: Russian rocket stages dropped in Arctic waters raise health, environmental and legal concerns - Volume 53 Issue 6

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Guppy@ロケみる集会Dec 28
【#soyuz 】Soyuz ロケット打ち上げ見よ！ AIST-2T 01 & 02 #宇推くりあ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ytcab_ljis
Soyuzロケット（AIST-2T 01 & 02）打ち上げ観覧の告知なのです。配信は宇推くりあチャンネルで公開されているのです。支援はDonation・FANBOX・BOOTHで可能ぽい。
配信ルールとして、身体への過度な指摘、配信外の話、差別的発言、同内容の過度な投稿、コメント欄同士の会話、過度な荒らしなどは禁止で、モデレーター判断でブロックされる可能性があるのです。
【#soyuz 】Soyuz ロケット打ち上げ見よ！ AIST-2T 01 & 02 #宇推くりあ

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Dec 22
@Powerfromspace1 There are other #Soyuz 2 rocket launch pads, but they are either located at an unsuitable latitude, like Plesetsk, or not certified for crewed flights, like #Vostochny https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/site-31-accident/
Rockets launching from the country’s new spaceport in eastern Russia, the #Vostochny Cosmodrome, would easily reach the ROS in its polar orbit https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/russia-is-about-to-do-the-most-russia-thing-ever-with-its-next-space-station/
Russia left without access to ISS following structure collapse at Baikonur launch site - NASASpaceFlight.com

On Nov. 27, after the launch of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-28…

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Hype / Aerospace NewsDec 9

Soyuz MS-27 undocks from ISS; Jonny Kim and two Roscosmos cosmonauts to land Dec. 9
- By Mark A Garcia

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/12/08/live-on-nasa-three-soyuz-crewmates-landing-on-earth-soon/
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/human-spaceflight-space-stations/?story=db1408a5-c856-456e-afcb-762b122fcf25
#soyuz #nasa #space

Live on NASA+: Three Soyuz Crewmates Landing on Earth Soon - NASA

The Soyuz spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, will make a parachute-assisted landing at 12:03 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 9 (10:03 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan), on the steppe of Kazakhstan

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