The Russian Ministry of Defence has successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1v light-class rocket with a Volga upper stage from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia at 2025 GMT on 1 August. The satellite carried has now been codenamed as Cosmos 2558 (Kosmos 2558), a generic filler...
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...
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B Fregat-M vehicle successfully launched the Glonass K1-4 navigation satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0918 GMT on 7 June. Glonass K1-4 (aka Glonass K16L) is the fourth Glonass-K upgraded Russian navigation spacecraft...
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...
A Russian cargo freighter was successfully launched on a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 0932 GMT on 3 June. The freighter, called Progress MS-20, was put on a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous path with the International Space Station...
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...
