The new Soyuz-FG continued to use the RD-0110 engine for its second stage, same as the Soyuz-U. With the upgraded engines on its first stage and a host of other improvements over the Soyuz-U ...

The basic design of Soyuz’ first and second stages, which burn together from liftoff until first stage separation just under two minutes later, remains unchanged from the R-7 missile that Soyuz ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

TASS/. Signal failure might have occurred at the moment of separation of the first and second stages of the Soyuz-FG rocket, which triggered the safety system that aborted the launch, the Russian ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying ... In the last stage of the landing, it descended under a red-and-white parachute at about 7.2 meters per second (16 mph), with small rockets fired ...

Like the first-generation stations, they were launched unmanned and their crews arrived later in Soyuz spacecraft. Second-generation stations had two docking ports. This permitted refueling and ...

Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner sits outside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after landing with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin in a remote area near the town of ...

A Soyuz Capsule With 2 Russians and 1 American Returns to Earth From the International Space Station MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International ...