Russia’s next space station is a study in contradictions: technically ambitious, geopolitically sharp edged, and financially precarious all at once. The plan to replace the aging International Space ...
For several years now, in discussing plans for its human spaceflight program beyond the International Space Station, Russian officials would proudly bring up the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS. The ...
Russia has once again postponed the launch of its Soyuz-5 rocket, this time due to the need for additional testing. Russia’s rocket program, despite being positioned as a competitor to Elon Musk’s ...
Kazakhstan’s Dier-5 satellite launch with China highlights a pragmatic pivot toward faster and more reliable space partners. Persistent delays in Russia’s Soyuz-5 rocket threaten the long-standing ...
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...
A Russian cosmonaut was removed from the upcoming NASA and SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Russia's space agency did not give a reason, but reports suggest a national security violation. The Crew-12 mission ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is due to retire soon, plunging into the South Pacific Ocean after being dragged down through Earth’s atmosphere. But perhaps not all of the space station will be ...
Russia's ambitious plans for the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) that was supposed to act as a beacon of Russian technological developments and the new pinnacle manned station in orbit, isn't going to ...
A botched Soyuz launch has dealt significant damage to Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan, leaving the nation without the ability to launch astronauts to the International Space ...
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The New Izvestia article makes it seem like the current ISS (and future ROS) orbit is out of reach of Baikonur, is that true? I don't know enough about orbital mechanics to know if it's that big of a ...