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PICTURE OF THE DAY

40 years ago, a fire broke out on the launch pad 1 in Baikonur, just one minute 48 seconds before a scheduled blastoff of the Soyuz T spacecraft with two cosmonauts onboard.

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Mid-November: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch the Resurs-P No. 4 satellite from Site 31 in Baikonur.

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Russia plans Starlink equivalent

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50 years ago:
USSR resumes crew missions after deadly accident

Soyuz MS-23 returns to Earth

In depth: Soyuz landing

Luna-Glob failure scenario emerges

Updates: August 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31, September 16

In depth: Luna-Glob home page | Vostochny ascent trajectories | Russian lunar missions | Luna-Glob project in 2023 (INSIDER CONTENT) | Soyuz-2-1b variant | Soyuz-2 family | Soyuz pad in Vostochny | Soyuz rocket in 2023 | Science aboard Luna-Glob (INSIDER CONTENT) | Luna-Glob design (INSIDER CONTENT)

Soyuz MS-24 delivers crew to ISS

Prototypes of the Luna-Glob hardware

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Concept of a lunar reactor revealed

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Progress MS-24 arrives at ISS

Cosmonauts complete VKD-60 spacewalk

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The D2 space tug for the L3M expeditionary complex revealed

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In depth: Soviet lunar program

HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia calls for BRICS space station module

INSIDER CONTENT: Cosmonauts complete maintenance spacewalk

INSIDER CONTENT: Progress MS-23 re-supplies ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian ISS science faces multiple challenges

ISS orbit correction prepares Progress MS-23 launch

MILITARY SPACE

Russia launches newly redesigned navigation satellite

Roskosmos launches radar-observation satellite

Russian satellites in choreographed action in orbit

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara awaits its payloads

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara-1.2 flies its second mission

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

Soyuz launches a Meteor weather satellite and a cluster of hitchhikers

Ekspress-AM5 experiences technical problems in orbit

Ekspress-AMU4 struggles with import ban

Elektro-L4 completes meteorological constellation

Proton launches Elektro-L4

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

INSIDER CONTENT: Luna-Glob reaches launch pad

INSIDER CONTENT: Luna-Glob to witness solar wind hitting lunar surface

INSIDER CONTENT: Propulsion system of the Luna-Glob spacecraft

INSIDER CONTENT: Luna-Glob to zap lunar soil with laser

Venera-D mission approaches preliminary design

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ROCKETRY

INSIDER CONTENT: Kazakhstan to postpone Baiterek project

INSIDER CONTENT: Reusable rocket advances through Technical Design

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara pad in Vostochny nears completion

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara-NZh to wait for integrated tests

INSIDER CONTENT: New engine paves the way to reusable launcher

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HISTORY

50 years ago: N1-No. 7L

50 years ago: Kosmos-573 re-confirms Soyuz fixes

INSIDER CONTENT: DOS-3: Skylab's challenger

INSIDER CONTENT: Soviet Mars sample return: New details on the trip home

Borisov replaces Rogozin at the helm of Roskosmos

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