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PICTURE OF THE DAY

Mir resupply

40 years ago: Progress-26 re-supplies nascent Mir.

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April 14-30: A Soyuz-5 rocket to fly its first test mission (INSIDER CONTENT) from Site 45 in Baikonur.

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Progress MS-34 to resupply ISS

Landing System of PTK spacecraft

INSIDER CONTENT

In depth: PTK project

Angara-1.2 flies its seventh mission

In-depth: Angara rocket family

Soyuz-5 team works through multiple issues

INSIDER CONTENT

In depth: Soyuz-5 project

Soyuz rocket launches a military payload

Progress MS-32 conducts ISS orbit correction

Rosatom plans Moon-based nuclear source

INSIDER CONTENT

Nauka joins ROS complex

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Russian Starlinks make first maneuvers

Thermal Control System of the ROS complex

INSIDER CONTENT

PILOTED SPACE FLIGHT

INSIDER CONTENT: Orel's Aggregate Compartment detailed

INSIDER CONTENT: How NEM will be activated

Progress MS-33 docks at ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Antennas and sensors on Progress-MS

INSIDER CONTENT: Design and evolution of ROS' life-support system

MILITARY SPACE

Soyuz-2-1a launches military payload from Plesetsk

Soyuz launches classified payload

Olymp disintegrates in graveyard orbit

Russia fails to rebuild its early warning satellite system

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

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

Ekspress-AT1 shuts down prematurely

Proton launches fifth Elektro-L weather satellite

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia plans imaging mega-constellation

INSIDER CONTENT: "Russian Starlink" deployment to begin

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Russian space science program faces widening years-long gap

Vozvrat-MKA pushed beyond 2035

Roskosmos adds mission concept to its lunar program

ESA, NASA revive ExoMars project

INSIDER CONTENT: Russian gamma-telescope remains in limbo

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ROCKETRY

Roskosmos confirms completion of Site 31 repairs

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara inches toward operational use in 2026

INSIDER CONTENT: Roskosmos makes plans for remaining Protons

INSIDER CONTENT: Returnable rocket advances through Technical Design

Roskosmos manager casts doubts on timely repairs of Soyuz pad

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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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Last update: April 25, 2026