Roscosmos continues to stir up public interest in the speedy launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and the Progress MS-18 transport cargo vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome. A YouTube broadcast has already been posted for this event. The launch is scheduled to take place on October 28, 2021 at 03:00:32 Moscow time (reserve date – […]
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The Russian “cinema crew” returns to Earth one minute ahead. How to watch the broadcast
Roscosmos has specified the time of the return to Earth of the “film crew” – a team with a Russian film crew on the transport manned spacecraft Yu.A. Gagarin “(Soyuz MS-18). The return of Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild is scheduled for October 17, 2021. Closing the passageways between […]
An alarm has been triggered in the Russian ISS module. Roscosmos told what happened
Early this morning, an alarm went off in the Zvezda module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station and woke up the Russian cosmonauts. This was reported by the press service of Roscosmos. The smoke detector was triggered at 04:55 Moscow time when the batteries were being recharged automatically. According to Roskosmos, in […]
Russia is preparing to launch the first domestic orbital spaceport
Roskosmos has already shared the first details about the Russian space station ROSS, which is planned to be launched after the completion of the ISS. Now new details have become known. The information was shared by the direct and main participant of the project – Rocket and Space Corporation Energia in the official YouTube channel. […]
Maglev trains are being tested in Russia
State Corporation Roscosmos announced an interesting achievement of its “daughter” – the Russian MIT (Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering). On August 26, 2021, MIT began running trials of a monorail transport system – a train moving using maglev technology (the so-called maglev technology – the principle of a magnetic cushion). It is noted that the […]
The rarest phenomenon: the Russian observatory has discovered a thermonuclear supernova in our galaxy
Roscosmos shared interesting news – the Russian astrophysical orbital observatory Spektr-RG discovered a thermonuclear supernova in our galaxy. The record sensitivity of the eROSITA telescope (one of the two telescopes aboard Spektra-RG) makes it possible to find very rare and unusual sources of X-ray radiation in the celestial sphere. One of these sources was a […]
Roscosmos successfully launched Soyuz and delivered 34 OneWeb satellites into orbit. The broadcast can be viewed in the recording
Tonight, August 22, 2021 at 01:13 Moscow time, a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage and 34 OneWeb spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This start was the ninth one within the OneWeb program and the third one from Baikonur. The launch was successful. The launch and flight of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier […]
The launch of the Russian station on the Moon was postponed to May 2022
Roskosmos announced that the launch of the automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 from the Vostochny cosmodrome has been specified and is scheduled for the second possible launch window. Launch window is the period of time when a spacecraft launched from the Earth, taking into account its design features and power-to-weight ratio, will reach its destination optimally […]
Up to 110 meteors per hour: tonight in Russia you can observe the Perseid peak – the brightest starfall of summer
Tonight, Russians will be able to witness a significant astronomical event – to observe the peak of the famous Perseid summer starfall. If, of course, the weather conditions are suitable. Perseids 2018 in Arkhyz. Collage of 70 frames Roscosmos and the Moscow Planetarium warned about the upcoming event. As noted in the latter, the observation […]
The first video from the “Science” module: Russian cosmonauts opened hatches and conducted an excursion
On July 29, 2021, the Nauka multipurpose module successfully docked to the Russian segment of the ISS. The event happened not without complications – the freelance launch of the module’s engines led to the ISS turning 45 degrees. Nevertheless, Roskosmos is calm about this and does not intend to conduct any special investigations with the […]
