10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
...'s second stage (which had underperformed) with a longer burn sequence, and successfully put the satellite in orbit. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, noted that one of the four second stage engines shut down nine...
13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
... has made. Last year UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian Federal Space Agency “ROSCOSMOS,” along with similar deals made with UK and China. Speaking of the agreement with NASA, Al Romaithi says...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
On Thursday 17th November, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky will head to the International Space Station on a two day flight aboard a Soyuz rocket ...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... microsatellite in LEO. The microsatellite will launch tomorrow (28 November) with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos meteorology mission Meteor-M No2-1 at 14:41:46 (JST) from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome and once operational, it will...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... in the atmosphere can do however, so it will now fall to land-roving probes such as ExoMars – a joint ESA and Roscosmos – to take a closer look. Due for launch next year, this joint venture will target and explore...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... which has previously been discussed but was also reaffirmed this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, and Zhang Keqiang, head of the China National Space Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents...
