February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... for many decades has been dominated by large enterprises and government organisations like NASA, ESA and Roscosmos because of the enormous costs involved, is going through a commercial revolution. It now includes a rapidly growing number of emerging...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... would take part. Sergey Krikalev, executive director for piloted spaceflights for the Russian space agency Roscosmos, shared a laugh over the question posed on social media and delivered by Pascale Ehrenfreund, incoming president of the...
27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
...’s comments on the apparent ruinous state of the ISS. Instead, the space agency’s press service reaffirmed that Roscosmos is awaiting proposals and an engineering note from RSC Energia on the new multifunctional orbital station. After consideration...
30 September 2021
China, Russia to present lunar station declaration at IAC in Dubai
... participation by all partners concerned and the fundamental cooperation principles for the parties to the project to abide by." Roscosmos and the CNSA at the global conference on space exploration GLEX-2021 in June presented an ILRS road map...
28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
... to launch. According to Igor Komarov, head of Russian Roscosmos agency, the delay was due to “cable problems”, which...be considered the opening day for the cosmodrome.” According to Roscosmos, by 2018 the cosmodrome is expected to launch 8-10 rockets...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
One month a go, the ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft departed this planet as it launched..., and the arrows indicate the offset star positions. Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS “The initial switch-on went quite smoothly and so far things look...
