he Russian members of the main crew of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonauts NikolaY Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin, will be replaced by backups due to medical reasons.

On February 12, 2020, the commander of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Nikolay Tikhonov, and the flight engineer of the ship, Andrey Babkin, performed examination training on the "Don- Soyuz" simulator for manual approaching and re-docking.

The Roscosmos State Corporation considers the launch of the production of universal rocket modules of "Angara" launch vehicles at the Production Association "Polet" (a branch of the Khrunichev Space Center) as priority task of the corporation.

At the NPO "Energomash" (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) on December 6, 2019 representatives of the American company "Orbital Sciences Corporation" signed the documents for the next batch of four engines RD-181.

In accordance with contractual obligations, the NPO "Energomash" (part of the Roskosmos State Corporation) on October 29, 2019, sent three RD-180 liquid rocket engines, previously accepted by the customer, to the United States.

At the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky performed a test phase of the manned transport ship "OREL", which is being developed at RSC "Energia" (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation).

At NPO "Energomash" (part of Roscosmos State Corporation), the commission successfully accepted the next batch of RD-180 liquid rocket engines, manufactured at the enterprise.

In the Assembly and Testing building of the Information Satellite Systems company named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) has begun the installation of new test equipment.

On August 24 due to technical reasons the docking of the spacecraft with the ISS in automatic mode did not take place. In order to ensure conditions for its docking on August 26, it is planned to re-dock the "Soyuz MS-13" spacecraft from the "Zvezda" service module to the "Poisk" small research module of the Russian segment of the ISS.

The acceptance commission of the next batch of RD-180 engines, manufactured by NPO "Energomash" has successfully completed its work. Liquid rocket engine RD-180 is designed and manufactured by NPO "Energomash". It is using in the US "Atlas" family of launch vehicles.