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Nearly 60 years after its historic soft landing, Luna-9 found on the surface of the Moon

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February 2 - 7 A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch a classified payload from Plesetsk.

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Olymp disintegrates in graveyard orbit

Russia plans imaging mega-constellation

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Roskosmos manager casts doubts on timely repairs of Soyuz pad

The scenario of the L3M lunar expedition

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In depth: The Soviet lunar program

Russian space science program faces widening years-long gap

"Russian Starlink" deployment to begin

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In depth: Buro 1440 (INSIDER CONTENT)

Vozvrat-MKA pushed beyond 2035

Russia finalizes design of a new-generation docking port

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In depth: PTK new-generation spacecraft

Roskosmos adds mission concept to its lunar program

PILOTED SPACE FLIGHT

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian government confirms station switch

INSIDER CONTENT: Communications capabilities of the ROS complex

INSIDER CONTENT: Roskosmos begins development of lunar nuclear power

INSIDER CONTENT: Instrument Compartment of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft

INSIDER CONTENT: How NEM will be launched

MILITARY SPACE

Russia fails to rebuild its early warning satellite system

Soyuz rocket launches first Obzor radar satellite

Angara-1.2 flies its sixth mission

Military satellite put on a destructive reentry

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

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

Soyuz rocket launches the Aist-2T pair, Iranian satellites

Computer problem delays Proton launch

Elektro-L5 arrives at Baikonur

INSIDER CONTENT: Yamal-501 to boost Gazprom communications

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian startup plans radar imager

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ESA, NASA revive ExoMars project

Bion-M2 returns to Earth

Soyuz launches a life-science mission

Soyuz launches second Ionosfera mission

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian gamma-telescope remains in limbo

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ROCKETRY

INSIDER CONTENT: Soyuz-5 delayed by ground equipment

Repairs commence at Site 31

INSIDER CONTENT: South-Korean rocket built with Ukrainian support lifts off

Rocket fails at Dombarovsky site

Soyuz supplier sees orders collapse

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HISTORY

INSIDER CONTENT: USSR inks new plan to rival Apollo

INSIDER CONTENT: 55 years ago: The USSR repeats secret lunar space tug test attempt

INSIDER CONTENT: USSR sends lunar lander prototype into Earth orbit

INSIDER CONTENT: 50 years ago: Soyuz-20 pushes forward presence in space

Management shakeup continues at Roskosmos

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Last update: February 3, 2026