17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
... as a communications relay satellite. The lander will test landing technologies in anticipation of the 2020 mission. Then, in 2020, a Roscosmos-built lander will deliver the ESA-built ExoMars Rover to the Martian surface. Mission operations and...
23 January 2019
Construction of Russian super-heavy rocket gets approval
...one day fly missions to the Moon and Mars said Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin, who announced the plans at a ...of Machine Building [TsNIIMash] - the leading scientific centre of Roscosmos (based in Korolyov, Moscow Region) confirmed the readiness of its...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... Commander William M. Shepherd of NASA, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri P. Gidzenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Sergei K. Krikalev of Roscosmos left Earth on a journey to the International Space Station on Oct. 31, 2000, this historic...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... participate in joint ventures, which includes exploring the Moon. Glavkosmos, which is a part of Russian state space corporation ROSCOSMOS said that between 2018 – 2022, the two space-faring nations would look to work together in areas...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... was most likely a result of human error rather than a micro-meteorite impact. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency told Russian media he was not ruling anything out, saying the hole was drilled...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency) launched its Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle from Baikonur at 1440 local time...
