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PICTURE OF THE DAY

Latest video shows ExoMars lander testing under an extreme touchdown conditions.

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July 14, 17:43 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch Soyuz MS-29 crew vehicle from Baikonur carrying three members of Expedition 75 to the International Space Station, ISS.

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Cosmonauts begin their first spacewalk in 2026

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Parachute System of the PTK spacecraft

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Russian satellites appear maneuver toward a commercial Western imager

Soyuz-5 promised to fly again in second half of 2027

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40 years ago today:
Soyuz TM makes inaugural flight

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Soyuz MS-14's sensor issue triggers fleet-wide upgrade

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Sarmat flies a test mission

NEM's Pressurized Section, GO

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"Distributed" solar observatory proposed

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Secret satellites barge in on amateur radio spectrum

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PILOTED SPACE FLIGHT

INSIDER CONTENT: Progress-MS interfaces

Progress MS-34 resupplies ISS

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Progress MS-32 conducts ISS orbit correction

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MILITARY SPACE

A three-side inspection race breaks out high up in space

Six payloads are identified in the April 17 launch

Russian secret satellites resume proximity operations

Angara-1.2 flies its seventh mission

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia's new military communications network inches toward launch

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

INSIDER CONTENT: Ekspress AMU-4 enters construction but launch keeps slipping

"Russian Starlinks" climb toward operational orbit

Ekspress-AT1 shuts down prematurely

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia plans imaging mega-constellation

INSIDER CONTENT: "Russian Starlink" deployment to begin

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

INSIDER CONTENT: Rosatom plans Moon-based nuclear source

Russian space science program faces widening years-long gap

Vozvrat-MKA pushed beyond 2035

Roskosmos adds mission concept to its lunar program

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian gamma-telescope remains in limbo

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ROCKETRY

Multiple officials involved in Angara production face charges

INSIDER CONTENT: Soyuz-5: Inaugural launch campaign

New work site for Soyuz replacement set up in Vostochny

Soyuz-5 flies its first test mission

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara inches toward operational use in 2026

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HISTORY

40 years ago: Mir receives its first cargo

40 years ago: Mir gets its first crew

40 years ago: Soyuz T-15 carries first expedition to Mir

INSIDER CONTENT: 50 years ago: Soviet lunar lander reappears in Earth's orbit

INSIDER CONTENT: The USSR plans Gemini rival

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