Russia’s Proton Crashes with a Trio of Navigation Satellites, Russian Space Web “A Proton-M with a Block DM-03 upper stage lifted off as scheduled from Pad No. 24 at Site 81 in Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 2, 2013, at 06:38:22 Moscow Time (on July 1, 10:38 p.m. EDT). The rocket started veering off course right after leaving the pad, deviating from the vertical path in various directions and then plunged […]
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Space station could be abandoned in November, SpaceflightNow “I suspect that if we get close to Nov. 16 and we haven’t flown a Soyuz yet, and by then we will have stepped down to three crew, we’ll probably de-man the ISS and go to unmanned operations,” Suffredini said. Russia is expected to present a recovery plan this week outlining tentative dates for launching the Soyuz rocket again. One scenario under […]