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Space gun lifts off

Almaz OPS-2 space station launched 50 years ago on June 25, 1974.

 

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February 28: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-30 cargo ship from Baikonur.

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PILOTED SPACE FLIGHT

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MILITARY SPACE

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Soyuz-2 launches a classified satellite, secondary payloads
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Roskosmos launches Kondor-FKA2 radar imager

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INSIDER CONTENT: Roskosmos promises Seamless Digital Sky

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia promises massive expansion of its Earth-watching assets

Ekspress-AMU5/AMU6 mission split

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Soyuz launches first Ionosfera mission

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian scientists seek smaller, cheaper projects

Luna-Glob's space tug to reenter

Russian lunar missions face new delays

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ROCKETRY

INSIDER CONTENT: Returnable rocket advances through Technical Design

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Sarmat fails at launch

Angara-1.2 flies its third mission
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HISTORY

50 years ago: The USSR launches dress rehearsal for a joint mission with Apollo

55 years ago: The USSR inadvertently gifts its secret spacecraft to hostile China

INSIDER CONTENT: The LKT lunar lander revealed

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