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Opinion | The crash of Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft on the surface of the Moon on Aug. 19 marked the Roscosmos space agency’s latest unsuccessful attempt to explore interplanetary space.

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, March 2nd

The meeting participants supported the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation’s proposal to commence the development of the Russian national orbital station, noting that the ISS has been in operation for over 20 years

Russia launches two telecommunication satellites Share 12 December 2011 Russian space agency Roscosmos has launched two telecommunication satellites, AMOS-5 and Loutch-5A, onboard a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. Reshetnev Company designed and manufactured the Amos-5 satellite, which is based on ISS Reshetnev’s Express 1000H unpressurised platform, for the Israeli operator Space Communication with a service span of 15 years. AMOS-5 carries 36 C and Ku-ba...

ANI | Updated: Jan 02, 2021 08:43 IST Moscow [Russia], January 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia is going to carry out around 30 civilian and commercial space launches in 2021, a source in space and rocket industry told Sputnik. "In 2021, about 30 Russian space launches as part of the Federal Space Program and commercial projects are expected," the source said. The source added that the launches would be carried out from the cosmodromes of Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vost...

Last Updated: Russia To Launch Over 30 Non-military Commercial Projects And Space Missions In 2021 Russia will lift off a Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-16 cargo ship from Baikonurs Site 31 to the International Space Station in February. Russia on January 1 announced the launch of at least 30 civilian and commercial spacecraft in 2021 under its Federal Space Program, sources in Russias space and rocket industry told Sputnik, according to ANI. The nonmilitary launches...