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May 30, 2024 · Russia recently launched a satellite that is "likely a counterspace weapon," a U.S. diplomat and the Pentagon said last week, raising new allegations that Russia is weaponizing space. Observers ...
May 30, 2024 · Here, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft sits at the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last September. Russia recently launched a satellite that is "likely a counterspace weapon," a U.S. diplomat and the Pentagon said last week, raising new allegations that Russia is weaponizing space.
1 day ago · A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. Oleg Kononenko achieved the milestone on Tuesday, having ...
Apr 11, 2024 · The test launch of the Angara-A5, Russia's first post-Soviet space rocket, was aimed at underscoring Moscow's ambition to be a major space power and the growing importance of Vostochny, situated ...
May 22, 2024 · Russia’s state space agency, Roscosmos, said in a statement in the early morning hours of May 17 local time that a Soyuz launch vehicle with “spacecraft on board” took off from its Plesetsk ...
Dec 1, 2016 · This week, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft turned 50 years old. On November 28, 1966, the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) launched an anonymous spacecraft, Kosmos 133, into orbit from its launch facility in the Kazakh Republic. This was the first test mission of a spacecraft that was originally conceived as a craft that would carry cosmonauts around the Moon.
May 22, 2024 · A Soyuz rocket carrying the Russian Meteor-M spacecraft and 18 Russian and foreign satellites blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East [File: Roscosmos/Handout ...
