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.

Soyuz MS-17 reserve crew members Anton Shkaplerov and Andrey Babkin go on with preflight trainings in GCTC.

Russia and India will soon determine which Russian-made equipment can be used in the Indian manned spacecraft "Gaganyaan", Dmitry Loskutov, “Glavkosmos” Director General, commented in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner currently on space mission aboard the ISS tells about his mascot – a figure of famous Star Wars character Master Yoda his wife knitted for him.

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.

Khrunichev Centre is going to resume the production of Rokot light conversion boosters on the basis of RS-18B ballistic missiles currently being removed from combat duty.

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.

60 years ago, on May 15, 1960, a three-stage "Vostok" launch vehicle with an experimental prototype of the "Vostok" spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for flight tests under the program of the first human space flight.