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XXII Winter Olympic Games start in a week. The story of choosing Sochi as Olympic Capital started in 2007. The…

Undocking is scheduled for February 3, 20:20 Moscow time. The spacecraft will perform controlled flight for “the Curve” scientific experiment. After that the vehicle will be sank in the Pacific Ocean on February 11, - the spokesman stated. The Curve scientific experiment is aimed at microacceleration level detection, development of mathematical model of gravitational conditions onboard the station and exploration of onboard systems operating modes impact on the ISS flight conditions.

The NORD instrument designed by Russia’s Space Research Institute was one of 58 proposals submitted to NASA earlier this month for inclusion on the agency’s upcoming Mars 2020 rover. NASA is due to announce the chosen experiments in March.

One-year ISS mission crew stood the test by 20 degrees frost im the forest of Moscow region, – GCTC press-office…

According to Eurockot company responsible for launch services with the help of Rokot booster European Space Agency (ESA) made arrangements…

Russian Cosmonauts completed their preflight trainings in NASA Johnson Space Centre on January 23, 2014

The work was accomplished in accordance with “Napor-mini RSA” experiment conditions prepared for experimental practice of use of small-sized radio detector with synthesized facilities for natural resource management, ecological control and monitoring of possible emergency situations on the Earth.

The first new generation Aist-2 small satellite is to be created in 2015, Samara Progress Central Assembly and Design Engineering Bureau reports, who will develop this satellite.

Space Industry specialists go on preparing Progress M-22M cargo vehicle for the launch according to ISS provision program at Baikonur spaceport.

Progress-MS modernized cargo vehicles will fly to the ISS since 2015. The improvements and introduced gradually and already being practiced on Progress-M, - RSC Energia Head Deputy Nickolay Bryukhanov reported.