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Russia To Launch Satellites And Supplies For ISS
Moscow (AFP) Jun 02, 2005 Russia will launch three satellites and supplies for the international space station (ISS) over the next month, the Russian space agency said Thursday. On June 17, the spacecraft Progress M-53 will be launched with 2.5 tonnes of supplies on a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday, an agency spokesman told ITAR-TASS news agency. Two astronauts, Russian Sergei Krikalev and American John Phillips, have been aboard the ISS since April 17. Four days later, a military satellite Monia 3K will be put in orbit by a Molnia-M rocket from the Plessetsk launch site in north-west Russia. On the same day another satellite will be launched on a Volna rocket fired from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea in northern Russia. On June 23, a telecommunications satellite express-AMS will be put in orbit by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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