Work on Russia’s new Far Eastern Vostochny space center will be prioritized now that the Winter Olympics in Sochi has come to an end, a senior official said Monday while touring the facility.

Cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov twice Hero of the Soviet Union and participant of the famous Apollo-Soyuz program died on Wednesday evening at the age of 79, - RSC Energia reports.

The mock-up of the Angara, built by the Khrunichev aerospace research and production center, will be used to test ground support systems ahead of the maiden launch of the vehicle scheduled for later this year.

Russian Security Council approved the decision to deliver NK-33 rocket engines to USA where it will be used for Antares rockets. The issue has been considered since last autumn, the question was whether it was efficient exporting the engines to USA in principle.

Russia successfully started its 2014 space flight program. Progress M-22M cargo vehicle  launched from Baikonur spaceport on February 5, 20.23…

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

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.

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 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.