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Russia and Kazakhstan to mak rocket for Moon and Mars flights

Russia and Kazakhstan to mak rocket for Moon and Mars flights

Kazakhstan will participate in designing Russian super-heavy lift launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Defense and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan (Kazkosmos) said. Creation of the …

Rogozin to head Roscosmos space corporation

Rogozin to head Roscosmos space corporation

The former Russian deputy PM in charge of defense, Dmitry Rogozin, has accepted President Vladimir Putin’s nomination to head the state space corporation Roscosmos. The president made the proposal …

Russia, Kazakhstan and UAE agree to boost space cooperation

Russia, Kazakhstan and UAE agree to boost space cooperation

Space agencies of Kazakhstan, Russia and the United Arab Emirates have signed a protocol on expanding trilateral space cooperation at a meeting in Baikonur. The protocol was signed by Kazakhstan’s Minister of Defense and Aerospace …

Progress MS-08 to be launched to ISS today

Progress MS-08 to be launched to ISS today

Soyuz-2.1a rocket will be launched with Progress MS-08 resupply ship from the Baikonur Cosmodrome today at 11:13 Moscow time, Roscosmos said in a statement. "The launch of the Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft is scheduled for the …

 Second Soyuz Rocket launched from Vostochny spaceport

Second Soyuz Rocket launched from Vostochny spaceport

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with a Meteor-M 2.1 spacecraft and the secondary payload of 17 satellites was carried out as scheduled at 8.41 a.m. Moscow Time (5.41 a.m. GMT) today, a spokesman for the Roscosmos space corporation …

 Russia returns 11,600 hectares of land back to Kazakhstan

Russia returns 11,600 hectares of land back to Kazakhstan

A protocol adjusting the Baikonur lease agreement, which has been signed in Chelyabinsk, ends the lease of land near the towns of Akai and Toretam by Russia, the Kazakh Defense and Aerospace Industry Ministry said in a statement. …

Russia and US to build moon's first space station

Russia and US to build moon's first space station

Russia and the United States have agreed to cooperate on a Nasa-led programme to build the first lunar space station, part of a long-term project to send humans to Mars. Russia's space agency Roscosmos said that a cooperation …

Man dies in fire at carrier rocket stage drop zone in Kazakhstan

Man dies in fire at carrier rocket stage drop zone in Kazakhstan

The driver of a Kamaz truck operated by Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyenia rocket-and-space enterprise has died while extinguishing a fire in the Kazakh steppe, which erupted at the drop zone of the stages of the Russian Soyuz-2.1a carrier …

Soyuz-FG Rocket installed at Baikonur launch pad

Soyuz-FG Rocket installed at Baikonur launch pad

A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a Soyuz MS-04 space freighter was transferred and installed at a launch pad of the Baikonur space center on April 17, Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation said. The launch of the Soyuz MS-04 piloted …

Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft with new crew put in orbit

Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft with new crew put in orbit

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft with three crew members blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan late Thursday and reached orbit several minutes later, a Roscosmos spokesman said. "The spacecraft separated from the third …

NASA not planning to buy more Soyuz seats

NASA not planning to buy more Soyuz seats

NASA has no plans to sign another agreement with the Russian Roscosmos State Corporation to continue astronaut transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS) via the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The last …

Soyuz MS-02 launch postponed due to burnt cable

Soyuz MS-02 launch postponed due to burnt cable

A burnt cable was the cause of postponing the launch of the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a source in the rocket and space sector said on Thursday. …