However, in 1973 the Soyuz-U variant was introduced, designed as a universal replacement for a myriad of different versions of the R-7 then flying. Soyuz-U would go on to become the most-launched ...

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has successfully returned the venerable Soyuz booster to flight via the launch of the Soyuz-U booster carrying the uncrewed Progress M-13M/45P resupply spacecraft ...

MOSCOW, February 17. /TASS/. The Soyuz-U carrier rocket with Russia’s Progress M-26M cargo spacecraft was blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International ...

Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence ...

A Russian Soyuz ferry ship undocked from the International Space Station and flew back to Earth early Saturday, bringing a Russian cosmonaut, a Belarusian guest flier and a NASA astronaut to a ...

The Soyuz-2 carrier rocket will replace Soyuz-U rockets that were used at the Plesetsk spaceport from 1973 until 2012. In total, 435 launches of Soyuz-U carrier rockets were carried out from the ...

Russia Launches Soyuz Rocket With Spacecraft for Defence Purposes, RIA Reports (Reuters) - Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a ...

(Reuters) - Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on Monday ...

The Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft ‘in the interests of the Russian Defence Ministry’. Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's ...