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).
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
... and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. Both missions will be carried out in cooperation with Roscosmos, who are providing the proton rockets. The main objectives of the 2016 mission are to search for...
14 March 2016
And it's off! ExoMars 2016 launches successfully
... successfully from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT this morning. ESA, who have partnered with Russian space agency Roscosmos to provide the proton launcher for the mission are expecting the first acquisition of signal at around 21:29 UTC...
10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
...'s second stage (which had underperformed) with a longer burn sequence, and successfully put the satellite in orbit. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, noted that one of the four second stage engines shut down nine...
