https://spacewatch.global/tag/tass-news-agency/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/tass-news-agency/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2020/12/russia-launches-second-angara-a5-heavy-rocket-test/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=29077&preview=true&preview_id=29077 https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/russian-navigation-system-glonass/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=26873&preview=true&preview_id=26873 Glonass to put layer of six new spacecraft in orbit by 2027]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/09/roscosmos-evaluate-sea-launchs-readiness-for-future-soyuz-missions/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=26012&preview=true&preview_id=26012 Roscosmos evaluates Sea Launch's readiness for future Soyuz missions]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/roscosmos-chief-touts-role-of-proposed-russian-orbital-station/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23142 Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, has said that Russia is designing a new “orbital” station where crews will build deep space probes to explore the Solar System.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/russia-to-develop-space-surveillance-satellite-to-monitor-space-debris-as-part-of-milky-way-ssa-network/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23050 The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is to develop a low-Earth orbit (LEO) space surveillance satellite that will help monitor space debris and should be launched by 2027, according to a senior Roscosmos official in remarks to the TASS news agency on 28 May 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/lunapolitics-russias-roscosmos-signals-openness-to-us-proposed-artemis-accords/ Thu, 21 May 2020 05:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22712 A senior official from the Russian state space corporation, Roscosmos, has indicated that Russia is open to discussions with the United States regarding Russia’s role in the Artemis lunar programme – in particular the Lunar Gateway mission – within the framework of NASA’s proposed Artemis Accords.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/russia-wary-of-space-privatisation-after-trump-executive-order-but-willing-to-talk/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 05:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21574 Responding to President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources, Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the personal press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the TASS news agency that any attempt at “privatizing” space would be considered “unacceptable.”]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/russia-and-turkey-negotiate-space-cooperation-agreement-to-include-turkish-astronaut-training/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16814 https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/russian-military-space-rokot-launches-three-strela-3m-communications-satellites/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11696 The Russian military successfully launched three Strela-3M communications satellites on 30 November 2018 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northwest Russia, according to reports from TASS, the Russian state news agency.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/uae-will-make-annual-astronaut-missions-russia-offers-astronaut-training-to-bahrain-and-saudi-arabia/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11405 The UAE Space Agency will continue selecting astronaut candidates in order to create a national astronaut cadre with the aim of sending Emiratis in to orbit annually, Dr. Mohammed Al Ahbabi, the Director General of the agency, said in an interview with Russian news outlet Sputnik.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/russia-to-set-up-ssa-observatories-along-arctic-ocean-coast/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11255 Russian scientists, with the support of the Russian government, intend to place a number of ground-based observatories in the Nenets Autonomous Region on Russia's Northwest Arctic Ocean coast for the purposes of providing space situational awareness (SSA) of satellites and space debris in Polar orbits as the pass over the Arctic region, according to a report published on 7 November 2018 by the Russian news agency, TASS.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/kazakhstan-and-russia-discuss-cooperation-on-baiterek-programme-baikonur-and-satellite-communications/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 05:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10462 https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/indias-gaganyaan-mission-to-send-three-foreign-trained-vyomanauts-into-space-by-2022/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10211 Following the announcement in early August 2018 by Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, that India will launch its own Vyomanauts into space by 2022, senior Indian space officials have added more details about what is now called the Gaganyaan programme.]]>