After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot
After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...
'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
Kremlin replaces Russian space boss after tenure scarred by failed moonshot
The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...
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Baikonur Cosmodrome: Celebrating 70 Years of Launching Humanity Into Space
A must-see attraction is the Museum of the History of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in the heart of the facility. It ...
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Russia's insane plan to send giant mirror into space 'to light up Siberia'
Progress M-15 then docked with Russia's Mir space station, where crews prepared the epic solar mirror for the first test. In February 1993, Progress undocked from Mir and moved some 150m away.
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Are We on the Verge of an Arms Race in Space?
The U.S. and Russia have one remaining shared space program that has endured since the 1990s: the iconic International Space Station. It has long represented a beacon of space diplomacy and served ...
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Kremlin replaces Russian space boss after tenure scarred by failed moonshot
Borisov, despite that failure, had laid out ambitious plans for the coming years as Russia prepares to launch its own orbital space station. The new project will replace the ageing International ...