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The general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, asked not to respond with emoticons and memes to his posts related to the activities of the corporation. Rogozin left such a comment to his post on Facebook.

Russia has stopped the technical design of a super-heavy carrier that they wanted to use for flights to the moon. Earlier it was reported that this could involve the Angara-A5B and Soyuz-2.1 a missiles.

Tests of the control systems of the new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle will begin simultaneously with the flight tests of the rocket itself, which are scheduled for December 2023, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said

A superheavy rocket for flights to the moon in its former form will not be created, funds are directed to the creation of methane technologies. This was announced during a conversation with journalists by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday, September 15.

Either to Vostochny or to Baikonur, the head of Roscosmos said

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, invited the winners and prize-winners of the VI National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) employees of NPO Automatics to one of the rocket launches from the Vostochny or Baikonur cosmodromes.

The construction of the terminal of the new airport complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed in 2024-2025, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

Methane engines currently being developed for a superheavy lunar rocket will allow multiple use of the carrier stages, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state corporation Roscosmos.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

A mock-up of the Rosalind Franklin rover of the Russian-European ExoMars-2022 mission extracted soil from a depth of 1.7 meters during tests, Roscosmos reported, citing materials from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of his own space company Privateer Space. "A private space company, Privateer Space, unlike any other, is being created," Wozniak wrote on Twitter.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launched into orbit on Tuesday with 51 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX said.

With the available funding, it is impossible to increase the volume of research in low-Earth orbit, said Alexander Derechin, Deputy General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, speaking at the international Gagarin Conference, TASS reports.

Virgin Galactic, a company controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has faced new problems, SpaceNews reports.

All seats in the new council were taken by representatives of Roscosmos

Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia announced the early termination of the powers of the board of directors and the election of members of the new board.

It lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes

Japanese astronauts Akihiko Hoshide and Frenchman Tom Pesquet returned to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday after almost seven hours of work in outer space. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

These experiments began in 2003

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will continue to conduct experiments on growing protein crystals on the International Space Station (ISS) together with Roscosmos until 2024. This was announced on Monday by Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president of JAXA.

According to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy General Director of the state corporation, during the implementation of international projects, it is necessary to find a balance between competition and cooperation, between national benefits and world progress.

As the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation noted, Moscow stands for constructive and equal cooperation in the space sphere

Russia calls for the launch of negotiations on the development of an international instrument prohibiting the deployment of any types of weapons in outer space.