#soyuz (rocket)

[vestaignis]

Медуза над городом. Фотограф Бондарь Евгений. Казахстан (Караганда). A jellyfish over the city. Photographer Bondar Evgeny. Kazakhstan (Karaganda).

Запуск РН Союз 2-1а, Союз МС-22. Полет людей к МКС. Снято в городе Караганда, Казахстан. Launch of the Soyuz 2-1a rocket, Soyuz MS-22. The flight of people to the ISS. Filmed in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Источник: /35photo.pro/photo_8111875/.

[thethirdbear]

[cupidcosmos]

brezhnev racing a soyuz.

[zuzaniedzwiedz]

ROSCOSMOS POSTER WITH IVAN!

[the-digital-alchemist]

🚀 What’s this strange cage around the rocket?

It’s not a sci-fi prop—it’s the Soyuz launch pad support structure, one of the most iconic pieces of spaceflight engineering ever built.

Unlike NASA’s rolling gantries or SpaceX’s modern towers, the Soyuz pad doesn’t pull back a whole tower before liftoff. Instead, it uses a set of mechanical arms that grip the rocket from the bottom and hold it upright.

Here’s the genius part:

🔹 The arms are attached to counterweights (the golden cylinders) that let them swing open effortlessly at launch.

🔹 Just seconds before liftoff, the arms release in a perfect synchronized motion, creating the famous “flower-petal opening” around the rocket.

🔹 Because the system relies on gravity and simple mechanics, it’s extremely reliable—fewer moving parts mean fewer chances of failure.

This design dates back to the 1950s, yet it’s still in use today. The very same style of pad launched Yuri Gagarin in 1961, the first human in space, and continues to launch Soyuz missions to the ISS.

What looks like a cage is actually one of the most dependable launch systems ever created. 🌸🚀

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[spaceexp]

The launch of Soyuz MS-18, as seen from the International Space Station.

by @OlegMKS

[agelessphotography]

The launch of the Russian Soyuz rocket, seen from the International Space Station, Christina Koch, 2019