In September 2024, a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome en route to the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard were two Russians and an American. Given the depths to which ...

MOSCOW, 8 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ flag was raised at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 8 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the Cosmonaut Training Center. “The morning at Baikonur began with the ...

Kazakhstan impounded Russian equipment at the Baikonur space base over a feud with the Kremlin. Kazakh authorities say Russia companies never paid huge fines, leading it to impound equipment there.

Kazakh authorities have impounded the property of Russia's main operator of spacecraft launching sites in Baikonur (Baiqonyr) in the Central Asian nation's southern region of Qyzylorda. Kazakhstan’s ...

During what would become the most dramatic month in space history, an apocalyptic explosion of near-nuclear magnitude took effect in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, two weeks before the Apollo ...

MOSCOW, 3 June (BelTA - TV BRICS) - Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of Baikonur, the world's first and largest spaceport, which played a key role in the development of manned ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announces that the SES-6 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is now being processed ...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd (MEASAT) announced today that the MEASAT-3 communications satellite has been shipped from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems satellite ...

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 23. The rocket ...

June 22, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S. P. Korolev RSC Energia: Upper stage Block DM-SLB has delivered spacecraft (SC) Measat-3a with a mass of about 2.4 tons into its target ...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - U.S. lifestyle queen Martha Stewart flew to the Soviet-era Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday to wish good luck to her friend, space tourist Charles Simonyi who is due to ...