Over the next few seconds, the engines build up to full thrust, and once the countdown reaches zero, the launch pad swing arms open and Soyuz climbs away to begin the journey into orbit.

The departure of the Soyuz MS-26 crew - Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Donald Pettit - has to be rescheduled as well MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. The launch of ...

TASS/. Specialists of the Energomash Research and Production Association have launched active work to adapt the RD-180 liquid-propellant rocket engine for the new Soyuz-6 carrier rocket ...

March 3 (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 ...