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Mars mission on track as UAE sets 50-year sights high
Just over a week after the UAE’s Hope probe had sent back its first pictures of Mars,…
Space as well as energy on agenda for Putin visit to China
Putin visit to China: The possibility of closer cooperation between Russia and China in the space as well…
Chinese satellites predicted to capture 10% of world market by 2020
Chinese satellites: At least 10% of the world’s satellites will be built and supplied by China…
Russia loses contact with Vostochny satellite
Vostochny satellite: Russia has lost contact with one of three satellites launched from the new Vostochny Cosmodrome…
Vostochny Cosmodrome launches first rocket after 24-hour delay
Russia launched the first rocket from its new Vostochny Cosmodrome yesterday, 24 hours after an initial attempt was aborted due to a…
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner pumps $100bn into Breakthrough Starshot
Breakthrough Starshot: Russian billionaire internet investor Yury Milner has joined forces with the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking…
Q3 launch for new Chinese space lab
Chinese space lab: The authorities in Beijing this week disclosed further details of a plans to launch the…
Work begins on Azerspace-2
Azerspace-2: A group of employees from Azercosmos is visiting the US-based satellite communications company Loral Space &…
Russian space programme falls victim to recession
Russian space programme: Russia’s space agency Roscosmos this week announced that it was postponing its first manned moon mission…
Azeri satellites exempted from property tax in bid to boost telecoms sector
Azeri satellites: Draft amendments to the country’s tax code have been put forward to Parliament as…
Construction blunders force Putin to delay first launch from Vostochny
President Vladimir Putin yesterday officially pushed back the date of Russia’s first space launch from the $3bn…
Vostochny Cosmodrome too small for Soyuz-2 rocket
Work at Russia’s new $3bn Far Eastern Vostochny Cosmodrome has ground to a halt after a critical piece…
Brazil to build another Glonass ground station
Brazil is to build a fourth ground station for Russia’s Glonass satellite navigation network in its southernmost state of…
Gazprom GSS subsidiary moves into satellite production
Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom Space Systems (GSS), yesterday announced that it is to invest $252m in the launch…
Russia merges air and space operations in Aerospace Forces
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu yesterday announced the creation of Aerospace Forces, a new branch of…
$126m embezzled from Vostochny Cosmodrome
$126 million has been stolen by contractors and officials working on the construction of the flagship $3bn Vostochny Cosmodrome,…
New Angara rocket ready for launch by 2017, say manufacturers
Russia’s new Angara 1.2 space rocket will make its commercial debut in 2017, according to International Launch…
Roscosmos restructure planned with Russian space industry in crisis
Roscosmos restructure: Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos is to be turned into a state corporation by the second half…
Russia grounds Proton-M rockets after latest crash
A Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctioned and crashed in Siberia soon after launch…
RVC teams up with Finematika to launch space technology investment fund
Two venture capital firms have teamed to invest $60m Russia’s largest space technology investment fund, it was revealed…
Presidents agree to closer ties between Silk Road Economic Belt and EEU
Silk Road Economic Belt: China and Russia have agreed to work towards closer integration between Beijing’s Silk…
Progress failure to dock at ISS in another blow to Russia’s programme
Progress failure: Russia has written off its RUB 2.6bn ($51m) mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), in…