- 02:28 14/05/2013
Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket will blast off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to put a French telecommunications satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
- 04:09 08/05/2013
Russia's Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft will readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
- 02:41 26/04/2013
The Progress M-19M space freighter on Friday will perform a nominal automated approach to the International Space Station (ISS) despite the failure to deploy one of its navigation antennas, the head of the Russian space corporation RKK Energia, Vitaly Lopota, said.
- 14:53 24/04/2013
A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress M-19M cargo spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said.
- 12:29 22/04/2013
A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress M-19M cargo spacecraft was brought to the launch site of the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Monday and installed on the launch pad, Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said.
- 12:03 21/04/2013
The Progress M-17M cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station on April 15, will be "buried" in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Russia's Mission Control said.
- 02:00 20/04/2013
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have completed a spacewalk, Russia’s Mission Control Center reported on Saturday.
- 18:14 19/04/2013
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) started a six-hour spacewalk on Friday to carry out a number of maintenance tasks, Russian Mission Control said.
- 23:10 15/04/2013
A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked on Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) to perform a series of scientific experiments in space before splashing in the Pacific on April 21, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
- 22:03 08/04/2013
Landing missions to celestial bodies in the Solar System will form the backbone of Russia’s space research program in the coming decades, a prominent Russian expert said Monday.
- 06:48 06/04/2013
The NPO Energomash company has completed trials of a new engine for proposed Russian lightweight carrier rocket Soyuz 2.1 and is currently preparing it for serial production, the company’s CEO said.
- 20:46 03/04/2013
The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
- 19:02 29/03/2013
A Soyuz spacecraft with a new International Space Station crew took a faster route to the space station that took just six hours instead of 48 hours for the first time in history. Watch the flight, from lift-off to docking, in this video.
- 20:08 26/03/2013
Russia may use future modules of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) to build its own orbital station, a senior space industry official said on Tuesday.
- 16:45 26/03/2013
Russia plans to put 68 spacecraft into orbit by 2015 and to almost double the number of its communications satellites to 44 by 2020, a deputy head of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building said Tuesday.
- 07:25 16/03/2013
The Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft touched down on Saturday ending its three-and-a-half hour voyage to bring three International Space Station (ISS) crew members to Earth after 142 days in orbit.
- 03:52 16/03/2013
The Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday, beginning its voyage to bring three ISS crew members back to Earth, the Mission Control said.
- 02:09 15/03/2013
Unfavorable weather conditions have forced the Russian space agency Roscosmos to postpone the return of three Expedition 34 crewmembers - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin, and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford - from the International Space Station (ISS) by one day, space officials said Friday.
- 21:39 05/03/2013
Russia’s Jupiter research project, which includes a Ganymede lander mission, will receive its first funding next year, an aide to the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief said on Tuesday.
- 20:07 04/03/2013
On Monday the crew of the 35/36th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) spent six hours in a simulation module waiting for things to go wrong – and they did.
- 17:30 04/03/2013
Four Russian cosmonauts and two American astronauts are finalizing their space training before they lift off to the International Space Station on March 28. The two crews, including the alternative crew of two Russians and one American, have been running through tactical training such as docking and landing, as well as tackling unexpected onboard emergencies that may occur during the flight or inside the space station.
- 19:42 01/03/2013
Russia began designing a new launch pad for the Amur heavy carrier rocket at the Vostochny Space Center that is currently under construction in the Amur Region in the country’s Far East, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) reported on Friday.
- 09:42 23/02/2013
Russia plans to increase its share of the global space market from the current 10 percent to 15 percent, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Saturday.
- 02:47 12/02/2013
The Progress M-18M spacecraft, launched on Monday, performed an automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) early on Tuesday, a mission control spokesman said.
- 20:53 06/02/2013
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket with six Globalstar-2 low-orbit communication satellites lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, Russia's Federal Space Agency, known as Roscosmos, said after the launch.
- 04:42 05/02/2013
Russia will launch on Tuesday a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying six Globalstar-2 telecommunications satellites from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
- 19:27 29/01/2013
Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket will orbit a Mexican communication satellite, SatMex-8, in the first launch since the Yamal-402 satellite trouble, a spokesman for the Proton manufacturer, the Khrunichev Center, said on Tuesday.
- 15:52 25/01/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attempted to play down a dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan over terms for use of the Baikonur space center on Friday, after Russian media reports the previous day claimed the two states were on the verge of breaking off joint cooperation at the site.
- 14:29 22/01/2013
Russia's space agency Roscosmos and its European counterpart the European Space Agency (ESA) will sign a final agreement on March 15 on the ExoMars project, whose goal is to send unmanned probes to Mars, Roscosmos spokeswoman Anna Vedisheva said on Tuesday.
- 16:46 21/01/2013
In the first launch from the Baikonur space port this year, a Russian carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a is to orbit six Globalstar-2 communication satellites on February 5, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
- 14:13 15/01/2013
Russia will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
- 17:51 14/01/2013
Russia will launch on Tuesday three Cosmos series military-purpose satellites, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
- 20:15 29/12/2012
The launch of a Rokot carrier rocket, postponed indefinitely in early December over technical issues, is scheduled for January 15, Russian Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on Saturday.
- 18:25 27/12/2012
The first launch of a new Russian light class carrier rocket has been scheduled for the beginning of 2013, Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Alexander Golovko said on Thursday.
- 13:50 27/12/2012
Russia will spend 2.1 trillion rubles (about $70 billion) under a state program for the development of the national space industry in 2013-2020, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
- 07:29 22/12/2012
Participants of the International Space Station’s Expedition 34 began their work on the station after their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft docked with the ISS on Friday night.
- 21:00 19/12/2012
A new International Space Station (ISS) expedition lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center on schedule on Wednesday. The spacecraft blasted off from the same launch pad Yury Gagarin used for his trailblazing space flight in 1961. Photo: Astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency; Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Astronaut Thomas Marshburn (From left).
- 16:50 19/12/2012
International Space Station Expedition 34 blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
- 18:41 16/12/2012
The International Space Station’s orbit has been increased by almost 2.5 kilometers in a test of the station’s new emergency debris avoidance system, Mission Control told RIA Novosti.
- 11:45 10/12/2012
Kazakhstan and Russia are in talks over returning the city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan - home to Russia's main rocket launch center - from Russian to local jurisdiction, the head of Kazakhstan's space agency (Kazkosmos) said on Monday.
- 14:17 06/12/2012
The main and reserve crews for a new space expedition headed to Baikonur launch site on Thursday for final training before lift off later this month.
- 15:10 23/11/2012
The implementation of a Russian-Ukrainian space launch program now depends on the Russian Defense Ministry, the head of the Ukrainian State Space Agency said on Friday.
- 14:30 15/11/2012
A broken communications cable which severed Russian links with civilian satellites has been repaired, Russian telecom operator Akado said on Thursday.
- 19:22 14/11/2012
A severed communications cable in the Moscow region on Wednesday has rendered Russian specialists unable to control most of the country's civilian satellites, a source in the space industry said.
- 17:48 31/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 31 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian cargo spacecraft performed an accelerated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday just under six hours after liftoff from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for Mission Control outside Moscow said.
- 16:37 31/10/2012
The Soyuz-U rocket carrying the Progress-M-17M cargo spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
- 12:15 28/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s space sector needs to carry out sweeping reform in order to remain competitive, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday evening.
- 15:10 24/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s first satellite manufactured and operated by a private firm will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK daily.
- 22:05 17/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying a European weather satellite lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
- 14:21 17/09/2012
The descent module of the Soyuz-TMA-04M manned spacecraft landed safely near close to the nominal site in Kazakhstan.
- 17:19 14/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying a European weather satellite was delivered on Friday morning to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on September 17, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
- 17:42 10/09/2012 GORKI, September 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will spend 670 billion rubles ($21 billion) to develop its space industry in the coming years, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
- 17:37 07/09/2012 SAMARA, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s space industry is not in crisis despite some local problems, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
- 11:47 04/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch last month, a top defense official said on Tuesday.
- 12:23 03/09/2012 MOSCOW September 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Vladimir Nesterov as general director of the Khrunichev Space Center, the state press service reported on Monday.
- 20:18 30/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is planning to launch two space laboratories within the next four years, a space company said on Thursday.
- 18:13 30/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's NPO Molniya design bureau and the Myasischev Experimental Factory (EMZ) are designing a space-plane for sub-orbital "space tourism" and small satellite launch flights, according to a company specialists' report seen by RIA Novosti.
- 16:20 30/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's NPO Molniya space design bureau is designing a future hypersonic pilotless booster designated Hammer, capable of putting satellites into orbit, according to documents obtained by RIA Novosti.
- 14:02 30/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s remote sensing satellite Canopus-B, launched a month ago, has taken its first photos of the earth’s surface, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.
- 16:49 28/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russian women can be included into the country’s cosmonauts team if they successfully complete all selection stages, Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said on Tuesday.
- 14:43 28/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center will change the terms of future open cosmonaut selection drives, the center’s deputy chief Igor Sokhin said on Tuesday.
- 13:54 22/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti)
A space satellite manufacturing plant will be built in the town of Shchyolkovo, just outside the Russian capital, Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
- 13:39 22/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti)
British singer Sarah Brightman is in talks with the space tourism firm Space Adventures to become the world's eighth space tourist, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday.
- 20:32 16/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti)
The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter will carry on with a planned manouver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on August 22, the agency said on Thursday.
- 13:56 09/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he will name officials responsible for Monday's failed satellite launch next week.
- 11:06 09/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
Monday's failed satellite launch was caused by a fault in a fuel pipe, Kommersant daily reported on Thursday, citing a source in the government inquiry.
- 10:33 08/08/2012 RIA Novosti commentator Konstantin Bogdanov.
The United States has successfully launched its fourth surface rover to Mars in 16 years. Russia, on the other hand, recently endured the painful failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars and has little to brag about in terms of Red Planet exploration.
- 23:58 07/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, on Tuesday denied staff changes in the agency following Monday’s loss of two telecommunications satellites.
- 18:18 07/08/2012
The Briz-M booster failed to bring two communications satellites into a calculated transition orbit after the launch
- 11:27 07/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos will suspend the launches of Proton-M rocket carriers with Briz-M boosters following the incident on late Monday when the booster had failed to bring two satellites into a calculated transition orbit, a space industry source said on Tuesday.
- 23:36 01/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russia launched on Wednesday a Progress class space freighter on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Mission Control said.
- 12:53 30/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Progress M-15M space freighter will be undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning and sent on a three-week flight to conduct a series of experiments, mission control said on Monday.
- 11:19 18/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's projected manned spacecraft capable of flights to the moon will not fly until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Wednesday, at least two years later than its previous projected flight date of 2015-16.
- 23:32 09/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 9 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-5 telecoms satellite lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
- 21:08 15/06/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
Kazakhstan has given Russia permission to carry out launches from the Baikonur space center, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov said on Friday.
- 12:55 04/06/2012 BLAGOVESHCHENSK, June 4 (RIA Novosti)
State investment in the creation of a cosmodrome in the Amur Region is comparable in scale to the first Soviet long-term plan for the electrification of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday during a visit to the main construction site.
- 21:05 28/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Progress M-14M cargo spacecraft has been sent on its final journey to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, Mission Control said on Saturday.
- 13:36 27/04/2012 MISSION CONTROL, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew undocked from the station's Rassvet module on Friday in preparation for return to Earth, a Russian mission control center spokesman said.
- 19:16 26/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has proposed a special federal program to neutralize space threats, Roscosmos deputy head Vyacheslav Davydov said on Thursday.
- 12:34 23/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti)
The world may see a manned spaceflight to Mars in the first half of this century, a prominent Russian academic has said.
- 19:42 22/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on April 20 dock with the International Space Station on Sunday, a mission control spokesman said on Sunday.
- 18:05 20/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti)
A Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur launching site in Kazakhstan on Friday for the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian mission control center said.
- 13:00 16/04/2012
Negative effects of long-duration zero gravity on human organism
- 19:55 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russia needs to invigorate its efforts to implement commercial space projects jointly with the European Space Agency and individual space powers, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 17:52 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is losing its position as the leader of the space race and needs to invest more in the space industry, a new poll by Levada Center revealed to mark Cosmonauts Day on Thursday.
- 17:01 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday a national strategy was needed for the development of the country’s space launch centers.
- 14:40 12/04/2012
Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day every April 12. On April 12, 1961, the Vostok-1 spacecraft with Yury Gagarin onboard lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center. However, this event was preceded by a massive research effort.
- 12:47 12/04/2012
By March 1960, the Soviet Union had its first cosmonaut squad, which was made up of nine Air Force pilots, six Air Defense Force pilots and five Naval Aviation pilots, 20 people in total. Biomedical training of would-be cosmonauts included 10-15-day stints inside an isolation chamber, the so-called “dead room.” The candidates were also subjected to incredible stresses inside centrifuges, pressure and heat chambers.
- 10:24 12/04/2012
The lunar explorer Selenokhod was built by the only Russian team to compete for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize to build a robotic Moon-explorer able to travel more than 500 meters over the Moon's surface and send back video footage.
- 10:06 12/04/2012
In 2012, Roskosmos will enroll cosmonauts for the first time on a competitive basis
- 17:33 09/04/2012
Russian Academy of Sciences’ proposal regarding Solar System exploration in 2012-2025
- 20:17 28/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has set the date for the return of the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth for April 27, head of manned flight programs at Roscosmos Alexei Krasnov said on Wednesday.
- 16:23 28/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday.
- 03:04 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft with the station, Russian Mission Control spokeswoman said.
- 17:53 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
The launch of a Soyuz capsule carrying the new International Space Station (ISS) crew may be postponed over faults in the capsule’s assembly, a source within the Russian space industry told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 16:24 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s state space agency Roscosmos has launched a cosmonaut selection competition, Roscosmos said on its web site on Friday.
- 22:12 28/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti)
The rocket carrier Soyuz 2.1a with Fregat booster and six American Globalstar-2 satellites has been launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) said.
- 18:18 26/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti)
The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said.
- 15:07 20/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain held a meeting in Moscow and decided to proceed with Moon research mission and flight to Jupiter, Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
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