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The Communications Directorate of Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has informed RIA Novosti that the next commercial launch of 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. Also in February next year, …

The history of the Sea Launch platform began in 1995 when a consortium of four companies from the United States, Russia, Norway, and Ukraine (with 40, 25, 20 and 15% shares respectively) was established. Cooperation duties were as follows: the Norwegian side provided the self-propelled Ocean Odyssey oil platform, which …

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. Import substitution was cited as the reason for creating the new rocket. Rokot (‘Rumble’ or ‘Boom’) is a three-stage small-lift …

According to the International Space Station Flight Schedule published by NASA, U.S. astronauts will no longer be launched on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the fall of 2019. Instead of the Soyuz spacecraft, SpaceX and Boeing spacecraft are to be used. Their first crewed flights are scheduled for next year. …

The recent pronouncement by President Donald Trump that called for the creation of a separate U.S. Space Force has been met with some consternation by a number of commentators around the world. This reaction seems more concerned with the controversial persona of President Trump rather than with the policy substance …

According to Alexander Medvedev, chief designer of launch vehicles and one of the ideologists of the Angara rocket, the upcoming decline in the production of Proton-M rockets will increase their cost by 2 or 2.5 times. Medvedev believes that the Proton-M rocket price can equal that of Angara-A5, which, according …

If one wants to attract private companies and investments to the Russian space industry, it is necessary to amend the existing legislation, Valentin Uvarov, vice-president of the International Association of Space Activities Participants, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Council, says. As previously stated by Dmitry Rogozin, General …

Alexander Shaenko is a Moscow-based engineer and space enthusiast, the driving force behind the Mayak cubesat developed by space enthusiasts that was launched in 2017. He is currently working on a new space-related project. We talked to him about his past and present activities, his views on the current situation …

August 15, 2018 at 18:51 UTC, a beacon signal was received from the SiriusSat-1 satellite.  The SiriusSat-2 satellite has not made contact yet. Two SiriusSat cubesats assembled by school students of the Sirius educational center in the city of Sochi were launched on August 15, 2018 at 16:52 UTC and …

According to Alexander Medvedev, deputy general director of the TsNIIMash rocket and spacecraft scientific center, the inaugural launch of the Angara-A5M rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome is planned for 2025. Another model of the launch vehicle, the Angara-A5B with an oxygen-hydrogen upper stage, is planned to be launched in 2027, …