Aleksandr Lukashenko pursued the policy towards an alliance with Russia since the first days of his presidency. But the ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Baikonur, the world's first and largest spaceport, which played a key role in the development of manned spaceflight and became a symbol of ...

The Baikonur Cosmodrome played a central role in both space travel and the Cold War. Humankind’s first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched there in 1957.

The septuagenarian space port proves as reliable as ever, but geopolitics and funding mean that its future at the forefront of space exploration is far from guaranteed.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is rented by Russia, is home to USSR-era space craft have been left to rust in an abandoned hangar.

An urban explorer has died after trying to walk to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from which Russia launches its rockets into space. The 25-year-old Frenchman died from dehydration on ...

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The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan — which was at the time part of the Soviet Union — on October 4, 1957.

The Russian Soyuz rocket carried a remote sensing satellite called Khayyam from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan on August 9, blasting off at 8:52 a.m. local time.