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Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway (LOP-G) is a future international lunar orbiting outpost, planned to be built in the 2020s. We talked about the development of the project, its tasks and goals as well as about Russia’s participation with Oleg Valerievich Kotov, pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, recipient of the …

The Russian private company S7 Space, the launch operator of the Sea Launch platform and the Land Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has offered Kazakhstan to use the Zenit launch vehicle. The purpose of the proposal is to accelerate the implementation of the space program and to carry out the …

The history of the market economy in Russia can be traced back more than a quarter of a century, but the country’s private space sector began to emerge relatively recently: most of the industry players known today joined the market only about 5 years ago. This can be explained by …

A team from the UAE’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) consisting of Emirati officials and nine astronaut candidates are now in Russia, according to Russian state space agency Roscosmos. The nine Emirati astronaut candidates will now undergo further selection tests and medical evaluations by Russian specialists. From that group …

On July 22 the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Progress Rocket Space Centre and the ‘NPO Energomash’ Joint Stock Company were reported to have started developing the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle. In order to carry out crewed launches of the rocket from Baikonur, it is necessary to restore the mobile …

Russian multipurpose Nauka (‘Science’) module will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2019, a source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome told Interfax. According to the source, all work on the module is to be completed next year, after which the module will be delivered to the cosmodrome. …

Nestled inside a protective aluminum shell is a silicon disc about the size of a United States half dollar.  Inscribed on this disc are microscopic messages from leaders of 73 nations solicited by Thomas Paine, then head of NASA.  The messages, intended to be left on the Moon for posterity, …

Russian enterprises have started developing a medium-lift launch vehicle Soyuz-5, said Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation. He has written in his Twitter that ‘Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Progress Rocket Space Centre and Joint Stock Company ‘NPO Energomash’ started developing Soyuz-5 rocket. Afterwards we are going to …

Azercosmos, the national space agency of Azerbaijan, and the French space agency, the Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), have signed a space cooperation agreement which focuses specifically on collaboration in Earth observation. This agreement gives fresh impetus to the Azerbaijani space programme, which gained momentum last year when Azercosmos was …

The Polyot Production Association in the city of Omsk will begin mass production of Angara launch vehicles in 2022-2023. Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation, said that the production will be transferred to Omsk, and the Moscow Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center will have only …