Roscosmos-URSC merger: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin this week gave his backing to the idea of backed the idea of creating a centralised space corporation as a means of revitalize Russia’s commercial rocket industry and advancing her growing ambitions in the space arena. At a cabinet meet on Wednesday (21 January) he said that the plan to merge the federal space agency, Roscosmos, with the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) under the Roscosmos name was “the right proposal”. The Moscow Times
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