The first rocket completely on a new type of fuel – naphthyl – will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the fall. The Gonets-M and Skif-D satellites will go into orbit on it. Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, General Director of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure (TsENKI, part...
The fourth-generation navigation device Glonass-K2 will be launched at the end of the year. This was announced by the first deputy director general of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects, Alexander Ivanov. “If we take the orbital constellation, the well-known constellation of the GLONASS system....
The Keldysh Center, which is part of Roscosmos, at the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum presented correction systems for heavy geostationary spacecraft based on KM-75 Hall engines and ID-200KR ion engines. As the press service of the state corporation notes, the correction system for heavy geostationary satellites based on the KM-75...
The Keldysh Center, which is part of Roskosmos, showed at the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum a marching electric rocket propulsion system based on the KM-10 Hall engine. It is designed to solve transport problems, for example, as part of space tugs and manned stations, or to solve the problems of...
Satellite services, including in the field of communications, must be provided on a paid basis, otherwise there is no incentive to improve them. So says the new CEO of Roskosmos Yuri Borisov. “The demand for these services is serious, and the vast majority of these services are provided free of...
JSC “Design Bureau of Chemical Automation” (part of Roscosmos) has successfully fire tested a new oxygen-kerosene rocket engine RD-0124MS, designed for the second stage of the promising Soyuz-5 space launch vehicle. This was announced by Roscosmos in its Telegram channel. As part of the development tests, the engine was tested...
Rumors that Dmitry Rogozin may step down as CEO of Roscosmos have been confirmed. Today, Vladimir Putin dismissed Dmitry Rogozin from the post of General Director of the state corporation Roscosmos and appointed a new one – former Deputy Prime Minister for Defense Industry Yury Borisov. Sources of the publication...
At the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region, the installation of all seventeen levels of the cable-filling tower for launch vehicles of the Angara family has been completed. This was announced by the press service of Roscosmos. As noted in the press service, the installation of the components of the...
Roskosmos and the Institute of Applied Mathematics. M.V. Keldysh RAS presented the “cracked” Sun – the image of the luminary was published by the state corporation in its Telegram channel. The above video shows the increasing activity of the 25th solar cycle, observed in the spectral line of hydrogen. Roskosmos...
Yesterday, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced the “galactic” tram, and today Roscosmos published its images on its Telegram channel. Now you don’t have to guess what a “galactic” design is. Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin called such a tram “light metro”. According to him, there are several...
The Ust-Katav Carriage Works has prepared a project for a double-decker tram for the Vostochny Cosmodrome with a futuristic design. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. “We have an amazing project of a double-decker tram train, in fact it is a light metro. There are...
The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, proposed to nationalize enterprises that produce radiation-resistant electronic components for spacecraft and beyond. “The topic of satellite construction in our country remains one of the most disturbing, precisely because of the inaccessibility of the radiation-resistant element base. Therefore, I would propose to nationalize this...
Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said in his Telegram channel that the state corporation is ready to develop cooperation with China on the lunar program. “Roscosmos is ready to deepen cooperation with the Chinese National Space Administration on the exploration and development of the moon”he wrote. The words of Dmitry Rogozin...
The Progress Rocket and Space Center (part of Roscosmos) has submitted an application for a patent for an Earth remote sensing system that will be able to conduct observations in the optical and infrared ranges. The relevant document was distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property. Soyuz rocketThe document...
Roscosmos announced the opening of a PROCosmos brand store at the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering in the city of Korolev. Here you can buy branded clothes and souvenirs with the symbols of Roscosmos. “And this is not just a sales point for the sale of products with the...
The press service of Roscosmos said that the Baikonur Cosmodrome has already begun to prepare for the autumn launches under the program of the International Space Station. Specialists of the Yuzhny space center accepted a train with blocks of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle for the launch of the Progress MS-21...