The first launch in six years of the new-generation navigation satellite Glonass-K from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for August. "The satellite’s delivery to the spaceport is scheduled for July, and its launch is scheduled for August 6," the agency’s source said.

The launch of Angara-A5 heavy booster preliminary planned for November 03 according to the source. Angara is a series of ecologically friendly rockets of various classes. It includes Angara-1.2 light boosters, Angara-A3 medium boosters, Angara –A5 heavy boosters, modernized Angara-A5M boosters and Angara-A5V boosters of increased carrying capacity.

Nauka (Science) laboratory module testing conducted in Khrunichev Centre show good results. In July the module will be delivered to Baikonur launchsite.

Roscosmos State Corporation has finished accepting applications for participation in the open competition for the selection of candidates for the Russian Cosmonaut team, which was announced on June 3, 2019.

Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and the leadership of space agencies of the U.S., Europe, Canada and Japan will discuss the collaboration for future lunar exploration by a videoconference on June 9. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

Launch pad for Angara will be delivered to Vostochny along the Northern Sea Route by September.

Roscosmos plans to test two new rockets in 2020, reports State Corporation press office Head Vladimir Ustimenko.

The Roscosmos State Corporation has now confirmed the prime, backup and reserve crews of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-17 is scheduled for October 2020 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Based on the analysis of the measurement information of the automated system for warning of dangerous situations in near-Earth space, the destruction of the dumped block of tanks of the "Fregat-SB" upper stage, which was used on July 18, 2011 when the Russian astrophysical observatory "Spektr-R" was launched, was confirmed.

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-16 crewed spacecraft is scheduled to launch on April 9, 2020 at 08:05:06 UTC. https://youtu.be/GRPGbfxTN94