The launch of RS-20 booster with Condor-E №2 satellite from Baikonur spaceport is scheduled for December 18, - Roscosmos spokesman reports.

ISS crew members will celebrate New year 16 times and dress the New Year tree with soft toys, - Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova reported from the ISS.

On December 11 in accordance with the decision taken by State commission on space complex flight tests the rocket was rolled out to the # 81 launchpad of Baikonur spaceport.

Last weekend specialists started general assembling of Proton-M booster in 92-A50 integration building. The booster will launch Russian Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite in mid-December, - Khrunichev Centre press office reports.

Proton-M booster with Yamal-401 space device will be launched a day earlier: on December 15 instead of December 16, as was planned before, - Roscosmos representative reported.

Preparations for the launch of Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and O3b space devices are under way in Guiana Space Centre (French Guiana).

The postponement of Proton-M booster launch with European Astra-2G space device won’t affect the launch of Proton-M with Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite planned for December 26.

The launch of European Astra-2G telecommunication satellite scheduled for November 28 was indefinitely postponed. Proton-M booster already installed on the launchpad will be transported back to the integration building.

Angara-5 heavy booster passed complex tests at the launchpad of Plesetsk spaceport, - Russian Ministry of Defence Aerospace Defence troops press-office representative colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported.

Works for the next manned launch planned for March 27 started at Baikonur spaceport, - Roscosmos reports. By launching Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from Baikonur on November 24 Roscosmos successfully finished manned launch program for 2014.