April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... Artistic representation of China’s proposed International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base currently being led by Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Senegal was the most recent signatory to the agreement...
02 December 2014
MAVEN studies Martian atmosphere
...water vapour, focusing on the Martian upper atmosphere. Its elliptical orbiter sequence occurs. Within a 50-year plan, Roscosmos is interested in establishing a permanent manned lunar research base, with a site on the Moon’s South Pole being a stated...
22 July 2015
Flawless Baikonur launch sees Soyuz head to ISS, reminds of importance of international cooperation
.... The Soyuz, a trusty “work horse” of a spacecraft, is set to deliver NASA’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of JAXA to a new home in orbit. Following a series of startling failures of unmanned missions to the ISS...
20 August 2015
The ISS and sustainability: new life for spare shuttle parts as NASA raids museums?
... when it bought nearly half a billion dollars worth of rides to the ISS from the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. The move came amid sanctions and increasingly terrible relationships between the U.S. in Russia as the result of the...
14 September 2015
Back to the future: SpaceX presents Crew Dragon interior
... Space Station by 2017. Lack of congressional funding means that NASA currently relies on the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, to send astronauts up.
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... has been a problem for NASA as of late (this means, for example, that NASA is still forced to pay Roscosmos to ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station, in spite of rather chilly relations between the U.S. and Russia).
