The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R-7 ...

That was the case on Monday when a Russian Soyuz rocket endured a lightning strike shortly after takeoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The launch was being recorded by observers ...

A Russian rocket on Tuesday blasted off successfully to carry a pair of Iranian satellites into orbit, a launch that ...

Russia’s Soyuz rocket has returned to flight with the successful launch of a Lotos reconnaissance satellite Thursday, two weeks after its failed launch of the Soyuz MS-10 mission. Soyuz lifted ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket capsule was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after launch last month because of a faulty sensor, investigators say. Russian officials believe the component was ...

The satellites were originally planned to launch on a Soyuz, then an Ariane 6, and finally made it to orbit on SpaceX's rocket.

Just before dawn on the icy plains of Central Asia, a giant hanger door opens and a train towing a 2,000 tonne Soyuz rocket rolls to the launch pad in the morning light. On launch day, three ...