07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... experiments aboard the International Space Station, Glavkosmos and China are also currently aiming to make their GLONASS and BeiDou navigation satellite systems mutually compatible and have plans to install adjusting ground-based stations...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
Space 1.0: how it all began In the 1950s and 1960s, the model for the development of global space exploration was the ‘specialisation’ model. In the Soviet space programme, the most obvious example of specialisation was the General Designers’ Board,...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... began to suffer from increasing instances of quality control lapses, such as the loss of two Mars probes, a constellation of GLONASS satellites and two Progress freighters. Even a Soyuz malfunctioned, the occupants (Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Hague...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... and Earth remote sensing (ERS) operator; Sovzond and Skaneks, providing ground-based ERS services; NIS GLONASS, a navigational services and equipment provider; plus a few companies offering launch services, such as Kosmotras. In just over...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... industry. In July 2013, there was an accident involving the heptylic launch rocket, Proton-M, at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Three GLONASS system satellites were lost, with damages amounting to about RUB 5 billion. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The...
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... the generic name of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Russia then developed its own GNSS called GLONASS. Since then China has developed its own system (BDS) and the European Union (EU) is developing its...
