Andrey Potapov is an alumnus of the economic faculty of the Moscow State University and a former employee of Scanex. He was also director general of a pioneering Russian satellite manufacturer Sputnix.

The Saint-Petersburg-based lab Astronomikon has grown out of a student nanosatellite project. We talked about the lab’s work on the commercial level.

The AngoSat-2 satellite is to be developed by Russia for Angola to replace the failed AngoSat-1 satellite.

An air leak alert at the International Space Station was registered by the ground crews at about 2:00 am on Thursday, August 30.

The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has signed contracts for the production of 12 Angara-A5 heavy-lift launch vehicles.

The Proton rocket with non-Russian satellites is scheduled to take place in March 2019. The Eutelsat-5West and MEV-1 satellites will be put into orbit.

It was reported that S7 Space was ready to order up to 50 rockets from Roscosmos with an option for another 35 if Soyuz-5 met the company's requirements. However, as the general director of S7 Space Sergey Sopov pointed out, the Russian government had lost interest in his company immediately after the deal had been closed.

Russia is developing the Rokot-2 launch vehicle with a new control system. The project was first announced by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center in March this year.

According to the International Space Station Flight Schedule, U.S. astronauts will no longer be launched on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the fall of 2019.

The upcoming decline in the production of Proton-M rockets will increase their cost by 2 or 2.5 times.