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🚀 “Progress MS-28" is on the launch pad!

Yesterday morning at Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome started off special with the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and its new cargo being moved into position.


🚀 Mark your calendars for August 15 at 06:20 Moscow time for the launch of “Progress MS-28”.

Don’t forget to set a reminder so you don’t miss the broadcast!

🇷🇺 As pre-launch preparations continue at the cosmodrome, enjoy this photo report by @Roscosmos!

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🚀🇷🇺 Did you catch the Soyuz launch with Progress MS-28? If you did, you know it was absolutely spectacular!

We've got an amazing photo selection and video to share that capture the excitement.

The spacecraft is on its way to the station with 2,621 kg of cargo and will dock following a two-day journey.

📸 Stay tuned for the docking broadcast on August 17!

Photo & Video made by @Roscosmos

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🚀 64 years ago, #OTD in 1960, the Soviet stray dogs Belka and Strelka (Squirrel and Little Arrow in Russian) won themselves worldwide fame and glory after successfully performing a 24-hour Earth orbit on the Vostok spacecraft and returning back on Earth safe and sound.

🐶 The first canine cosmonauts were chosen from a wide selection of the stray dogs the scientists collected from streets and backyards. They were deemed the most suitable candidates, as years of life in the street had taught them to survive in extreme conditions.

📺 Several days afterward, Belka and Strelka’s flight was broadcast on television. The audience could clearly see how the dogs were doing somersaults in zero gravity. While Strelka was always stressed and on guard, Belka was enjoying herself, frolicking and barking.

💫 After the flight Strelka gave birth twice, her puppies being just as popular as their mom.

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🚀 Check out the stunning view of the ISS in orbit!

Its “golden wings” spread out so beautifully.

🌠 A huge thank you to Oleg Kononenko, commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut squadron, for this incredible video.

#ISS #RussiaInSpace

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🚀 Check out the incredible footage of one of the most stunning training sessions at the Cosmonaut Training Center!

👨‍🚀 Watch as cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev tackle today’s tasks in the hydrolaboratory.

Don’t miss this behind-the-scenes look at their impressive work!

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🚀💫 Another successful launch! The Soyuz MS-26 has made its way to the ISS

A Soyuz MS-26 Spacecraft with two Russian and American cosmonauts on board docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, according to a broadcast by the Russian state space corporation
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The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur space center at 16.23 GMT on September 11 and a little less than nine minutes later, put it into Earth orbit. During the flight to the ISS, Soyuz MS-26 made two revolutions around the Earth.

During their mission, Russian cosmonauts will perform more than 40 scientific experiments, three of which have not been previously conducted on the station. They are also scheduled to perform a spacewalk in December 2024.

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🚀 Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolay Chub are set to break the record for the longest single flight under the ISS program!

At 16:06:51 Moscow time, they will surpass the previous record of 370 days, 21 hours, and 22 minutes, held by Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, and Francisco Rubio.

🛰 Having launched on September 15, 2023, aboard the Soyuz MS-24, Kononenko and Chub are slated to return on September 23, 2024, after an incredible 374-day mission!

For context, the all-time longest space flight was achieved by Russian Valery Polyakov, who spent 437 days on the Mir orbital complex.

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🚀🌏 Have you ever witnessed the return of cosmonauts to Earth?

Check out these stunning photos of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft bringing cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolay Chuba, and NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson safely #BackHome!

🛰 Btw, Kononenko completed his fifth space mission during his stint at the ISS, enduring a record-breaking 1,111 days in orbit.

🚀 If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry!

We’ve got a photo selection that will fill you with “space smiles” from our incredible crew!

Photos/video: @Roscosmos

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🚀 Spacecraft “Soyuz-2.1b” with satillites “Ionosfera-M” has been installed on the launch pad at Vostochny cosmodrome.

The morning in the "space heart" of the Amur taiga began with the verticalization of the rocket. Roscosmos specialists continue to prepare it for launch that will take place on 5 Nov 2024.

🌐 Satellites “Iobosfera-M” are part of the Ionosonde project to monitor near-Earth space and research ionospheric plasma and wave processes in it.

Photos by Roscosmos

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🚀 Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasted off from Vostochny Cosmodrome carrying a pair of Ionosphere-M heliogeophysical satellites and 53 other Russian and foreign satellites.

Nine minutes and 24 seconds after liftoff, the Fregat upper stage with the satellites was placed into low-Earth orbit.

🌠 Another minute later, Fregat activated its main engine to insert the devices into orbit.

Video by @Roscosmos

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🚀 The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket for the Progress MS-29 has been assembled and installed on the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The Progress MS-29 will deliver to the International Space Station (ISS) about 2,500 tons of cargoes, including 869 kilograms of fuel in refueling system reservoirs, 420 kilograms of drinking water, and 43 kilograms of pressurized nitrogen. Apart from that, it will carry equipment and material for space experiments.

🛰 The launch is to take place at 3:22 p.m. Moscow time (12:22 a.m. GMT) on Nov 21.

Pics by Natalya Berezhnaya

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