The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22/ISS-68S spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Rassvet module at 0957 GMT on 28 March in preparation for an automated landing in Kazakhstan. The uncrewed craft performed a re-entry burn 55 minutes after undocking and...
Cosmonauts commander Oleg Artemyev and flight engineer Denis Maveev opened the hatch of the Poisk module on the International Space Station (ISS) at 1325 GMT on 2 September to complete a series of outstanding tasks which were abandoned after their aborted EVA on 17...
Dmitry Rogozin, the controversial head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, has been removed from office by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov has replaced him. It is not known if Rogozin was fired or whether Putin has other plans for...
Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency and conglomerate, has taken what is thought to be the illegal step of unilaterally ordering the switching on of a spacecraft instrument it does not own. The German Max Planck Institute ordered its eRosita instrument on Russia’s Spektr...
With vicious fighting now occurring in the Donbass region of Ukraine three months into Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s space agency and conglomerate, Roskosmos, showed no shame using its rockets to proclaim its political messaging. It has...
