Space

China Successfully Launches a New Long March-5 Rocket

China's State Broadcaster, CCTV, announced today that the country has successfully launched its largest carrier rocket, which was carrying a new-generation spacecraft. The Long March-5B rocket was launched on Tuesday at 6 p.m. BJT (10:00 UTC) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site. The rocket is the fourth variant of the Long March-5 (LM-5) series. With the letter…
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Yevgeni Mikrin, Energia Designer General, Passed Away

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities announced this morning that Yevgeni Mikrin, Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Designer General, passed away at the age of 65. Mirkin was First Deputy Director General, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Soviet and Russian scientist in mechanics and control processes. The…
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“Victory Rocket” Launched to Commemorate WWII Victory

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War (WWII), Roscosmos dedicated the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a space rocket together with the Liftoff of the Progress MS-14 to commemorate this anniversary. This launch is the second in April for the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, to the International Space Station (ISS). The…
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NASA Develops Solutions to Respond to Covid-19

Today NASA rolled out some of the projects it has developed to address the Covid-19 crisis that hit the globe. The agency used its technologies and personnel and cooperated with other organisations and enterprises. "We specialize in spacecraft, not medical-device manufacturing," said JPL Director Michael Watkins. "But excellent engineering, rigorous testing and rapid prototyping are…
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Iran Successfully Puts Its First Military Satellite Into Orbit

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced today that Iran has successfully launched its first military satellite into orbit. “Iran’s first military satellite, Noor, was launched this morning from the central desert of Iran. The launch was successful and the satellite reached orbit,” state TV said. Sepah News, the news agency of the Revolutionary Guard published…
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UAE ‘Hope’ Orbiter Ship to its Launch this Week

A Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates will ship to its launch site in Japan this week, its launch preparations affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Emirates Mars Mission, an orbiter also known as Hope, is scheduled to launch on an H-2A rocket from Japan during a three-week launch window that opens July…
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‘Sarmaty’ Returns to Earth

The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft crew that undocked from Zvezda module on April 17, 2020 at 01:53 UTC, has landed safely. All the descent and landing process went routinely, ‘Sarmaty’ (crew callsign) are fine. Soyuz MS-15 crewed spacecraft has been part of the International Space Station since September 25, 2019. The crew have conducted several dozens…
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ISS-62 Mission finishing its work

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the 62nd long-term mission is finishing its work. The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft crew members Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir are getting ready to return to Earth according to the flight program. On April 15 the crew changeover took place at the station. ISS-62 long-term mission commander Oleg Skripochka…
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Russia & US Talks on Hypersonic Weapons

Moscow is open for a dialogue with Washington on new advanced developments, including hypersonic weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an online interview with Russian and foreign media on Tuesday. "We are also open for a talk on new advanced developments, including hypersonic weapons, in the context, and I want to emphasize it,…
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Russian Aerospace Forces Successfully Launches “Soyuz-2” Rocket Carrier

On Monday, March 16, at 21: 28 (Moscow time), a successful launch of a medium-class "Soyuz-2.1B" rocket carrier with a "Glonass-M" navigation spacecraft was carried out from the launcher No. 4 of the launch pad No. 43 of the State test cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk cosmodrome) in the…
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