roscosmos
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Russia Launches Its First Moon Landing Mission in 47 Years
Russia has successfully launched its Luna-25 mission to the Moon, which will attempt to land on the lunar south pole later this month. If it sticks the landing, Russia will become the first country to pull off a soft landing on the south polar region of the Moon. Luna-25 launched on board a Soyuz-2.1b carrier…
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Reluctant Russia Promises to Keep Working On ISS Until 2028
Russia has agreed to keep its cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028 despite earlier threats to withdraw from the orbiting lab.
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OneWeb Has Given Up on Trying to Get Its Hijacked Satellites Back From Russia
British satellite company OneWeb is counting its losses, and not its satellites. Following a fallout with the Russian space agency that led to 36 of its satellites being held captive in Kazakhstan, a company official said that they have “moved on.”
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Spacecraft Leak Postpones Russian ‘Lifeboat’ Mission to ISS
For the second time in two months, a docked Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station has sprung a coolant leak. Investigators don’t yet know the cause of the latest leak, prompting Russia’s space agency to delay the launch of a ‘lifeboat’ that’s meant to secure the safety of two cosmonauts on board.