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In response to EU sanctions against our enterprises, Roskosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space launches from the Kourou cosmodrome and withdrawing its technical personnel, including the consolidated launch crew, from French Guiana.
— @Rogozin
Orbital launches by SU/Russia, 1957-2021.
A Cosmonaut Is Demoted And Russia’s Star-Crossed Space Agency Lurches. Again.
There was the mysterious man-made hole that appeared in a Russian-built module of the International Space Station. There was the satellite-carrying rocket that failed because it was mistakenly programmed as if it were blasting off 6,200 kilometers to the west. There was the emergency landing following the unsuccessful launch of a rocket carrying a Russian and an American aboard a Soyuz capsule. There was the report that $400 million went missing last year.
Now add this to the litany of woes roiling Russia’s space agency: A respected former cosmonaut was demoted last month, reportedly after he questioned the agency’s decision to let a major Russian action movie be shot on the orbital station. The move prompted unusual public pushback from Russia’s professional cosmonaut corps.
Alexander Bloshenko, Executive Director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and science, informed us about a new ambitious plan to develop the Nuklon complex, which includes TEM, the nuclear propulsion space tug, with launch date in 2030.
(Source: twitter.com)
A Russian woman sits near a portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in a themed Moscow Metro train marking the 55th anniversary of Gagarin’s pioneering space flight in Moscow, Russia, on April 12th 2016. In celebration of Cosmonaut Day, Moscow Metro has teamed up with the Russian Federal Space Agency to launch the ‘cosmic’ train, which is decorated with images of the starry sky, planets and spaceships. Credit: EPA/Sergei Ilnitsky
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Moscow, Russia, 2015.
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Russia and Europe to launch joint mission to dark side of Moon, then build base there
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to join Russia’s ambitious plan to colonize the Moon, with an announcement that it will provide key tech for a planned exploration mission in 2020, and possibly help construct a permanent outpost.
Russia preparing it’s new lunar spacecraft Luna-Glob
Russia’s moon landing plan hindered by financial distress
Moscow (XNA) Aug 25, 2015
Russia’s moon landing project among other space programs will face further budget cuts and even risk of closure following the government’s austerity measures, a senior official of Russia’s space industry said Monday. “We don’t rule out that further space budget cuts would continue in the upcoming years,” said Yuri Koptev, head of the scientific-technical Council of Roscosmos, the governing
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