Thirty-six OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Russian ‘Baikonur’ cosmodrome into target orbits, as reported by the ‘Roscosmos’ State Space Corporation. This number of satellites was launched from Baikonur for the first time. Все 36 спутников связи #OneWeb успешно отделились от разгонного блока «Фрегат» и выведены на целевые орбиты // All 36 @OneWeb communications satellites
The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will prepare a herring under a fur coat for the New Year’s table, according to the cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. “We even have black caviar, tangerines, we are going to make with Pyotr ourselves a herring under a fur coat,” Shkaplerov shared their plans for the festive
Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will open the programme of cross-flights of Roscosmos and NASA. Kikina’s flight to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in 2022 on the Crew Dragon ship of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. “We assume that our cosmonaut Kikina will carry out her first flight in 2022, and we think that
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, carrying TASS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano, launched from site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The ship has been put into orbit. The meeting with the ISS will take place according to a four-turn scheme and will take
Flight tests of the light version of the Angara launch vehicle will resume in the first half of 2022, as stated by the Head of the Roscosmos State Space Corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the EAEU ‘Space Integration’ Business Forum. The Angara is a family of the latest Russian modular launch vehicles of various payload
The Roscosmos State Space Corporation’s CEO, Dmitry Rogozin, came up with the idea of creating a Eurasian Space Agency when he was taking part in the First Business Forum of the Eurasian Economic Union ‘Space Integration’. He pointed to the European Space Agency, which, in his opinion, united many countries, despite the fact that only
During each long six-month expedition to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts conduct more than fifty scientific experiments. This time, Roscosmos cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin, and Japanese space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano take part in the medical experiment “LAZMA” during pre-launch training at Baikonur. It is specified that the duration of the flight will be twelve
Flights of Russian cosmonauts on Crew Dragon spacecraft, and American astronauts on Soyuz (the so-called “cross flights”) will start no earlier than the autumn of 2022, which was reported to TASS by the Executive Director of Roscosmos for manned space programmes Sergey Krikalev. “The roles in this crew [of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft] are also
The Progress M-UM cargo ship with the Prichal node module for the International Space Station (ISS) was put into orbit today, on November 24, as the ‘Roscosmos’ State Space Corporation reports. It is planned that Prichal will be the last module that Russia will introduce into its ISS segment. The flight of the module
The ‘Roscosmos’ State Space Corporation has received the first funds for the implementation of the “Sphere” programme, which will allow Russia to receive the Internet from space. According to the head of the corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, this can be achieved in 2024. As stated, this year, the corporation has already received the first funding for
The TASS Russian News Agency will be the first of all global mass media outlets to open a permanent bureau on the International Space Station. A memorandum of cooperation by the agency and the ‘Roscosmos’ Russian state space corporation for a joint project was signed by the agency’s Director-General, Sergei Mikhailov, and Roscosmos’ CEO, Dmitry
Russian Foreign Ministry is outraged by the US “hypocrisy” in statements on space security. Russia stressed that the American authorities are well aware, fragments of the defunct satellite destroyed recently in space pose no threat to any space stations, and the destructive test itself was carried out according to international law. On Monday, the US
The unique Russian space telescope “Millimetron” (Spektr-M project) will cost 100 times cheaper than the American telescope “James Webb”, as stated by the Deputy Director of the Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Larisa Likhacheva. “The cost of ‘James Webb’ is really incomparable. The difference is 100 times,” she said. Thus, according to
