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PICTURE OF THE DAY

TALL VIEW

A moview frame combo shows the early R-7 ICBM on its launch pad in Tyuratam.

NEXT IN SPACE:

November 24: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-36 from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS.

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Two dead "Russian Starlinks" to fall back to Earth

ISS' leaky compartment permanently closed

"Russian Starlink" begins deployment

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LOK spacecraft

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Russian spacecraft approaches an imaging satellite supporting Ukraine

A private new comer builds "Russian Starlink"

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50 years ago today: Soyuz-23 ordeal

EOS-O observation satellite

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Lunar acrobatics: L3 cosmonaut transfer

In depth: Soviet lunar program

PILOTED SPACE FLIGHT

Progress MS-35 re-supplies ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Progress-MS spacecraft: Cargo Section

Progress MS-33 departs the ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Progress-MS spacecraft: PAO section

INSIDER CONTENT: Introduction to PTK's radio system

MILITARY SPACE

INSIDER CONTENT: Buro 1440 works on new-generation satellites

Russian orbital grouping approaching 400

Soyuz lifts off from Plesetsk

Soyuz rocket delivers milsat from Plesetsk

Russian satellites appear maneuver toward a commercial Western imager

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

INSIDER CONTENT: KOEN to sharpen Russia's "eyes in the sky"

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia's "private" radar imager begins flight testing

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian Starlink's ground terminals might be much larger than US equivalents

Kinosputnik to push Russian satellite imaging tech

Second Buro 1440 cluster shows slow progress

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mission to Apophis reconfirmed

ExoMars undergoes backshell separation tests

INSIDER CONTENT: Telescope-transformer takes shape for Spektr-M project

ExoMars lander undergoes legs deployment test

INSIDER CONTENT: Spektr-UF postponed for two years

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ROCKETRY

INSIDER CONTENT: RD-107: a classic of rocketry

INSIDER CONTENT: Proton-PM engine plant suffers fire

INSIDER CONTENT: Soyuz production in Samara

INSIDER CONTENT: Voronezh startup showcases booster mockup

Soyuz rocket producer hit

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HISTORY

50 years ago: Soyuz flies its last solo mission

INSIDER CONTENT: Investigating Soyuz-21 crisis

Salyut-5 at 50: Special report

INSIDER CONTENT: Design of the OPS-3 station

INSIDER CONTENT: Development of the OPS-3 station

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Last update: October 28, 2026