Soyuz TMA-12M with new ISS mission crew comprised by Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos) and Stephen Swanson (NASA) was successfully launched from “Gagarin” launchpad of Baikonur spaceport with the help of Soyuz-FG booster.

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched a Glonass navigation satellite into orbit early Monday morning from northwestern Russia, a spokesperson for the country’s aerospace defense forces said.

Soyuz FG booster was successfully rolled out and installed on #1 launching pad (Gagarin launch) of Baikonur spaceport on March 23.

Soyuz-2.1b booster with Fregat upper stage and GLONASS satellite onboard to be launched at might on March 24 was installed onto the launching pad of Plesetsk spaceport, Aerospace defense troops representative colonel Alexei Zolotukhin reported on Friday.

Today Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre saw formal farewell ceremony of main and back-up crews of ISS-39/40 mission leaving for Baikonur spaceport for further preflight trainings.

ISS orbit was increased by 2 kilometers with the help of Progress M-21M cargo vehicle thrusters, - Mission Control Centre representatives reported.

Preparation works for the manned launch are under way at Baikonur spaceport. Yuzhny space centre operational crews started preparing equipment…

Soyuz TMA-10M crew will take part in field test just after the landing

Soyuz TMA-10M crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins successfully landed in Kazakhstan

ISS orbit is to be increased by 1,5 km with the help of Progress cargo vehicle thrusters docked with the station at night on March 13, - the spokesman for Rocket and space industry reports.