Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and two European Galileo FOC space devices will be launched from Guiana Space Centre tomorow, on august 21, at 16.31, Moscow time.

On August 18, 2014 according to the ISS flight schedule ISS-40/41 mission crew members Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev will perform the spacewalk.

The launch of four Rezonans satellites aimed at Earth’s radiation belt exploration is planned for 2017-2018, - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Anatoly Petrukovich working for the Institute of Space Explorations of Russian Academy of Sciences reported at COSPAR conference held in Moscow.

Russian specialists continue preparing Soyuz-ST-b booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and two European space devices Galileo FOC for the launch from Guiana Space Centre (French Guiana).

Soviet space device Kosmos-1151 was deorbited and burned in the dense atmosphere, Russian Aerospace Defence Troops representative Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported on Tuesday.

On 26th of July at 08/05 DMT the connection with space vehicle “Foton-M” was re-established. According to RSC “Progress” the state of all the systems of “Foton-M” is nominal and it continues performing its flight tasks.

Unscheduled orbit adjustment maneuver was accomplished to form safe flight course of the station.

Russian biosatellite Foton-M with 5 geckoes, fruit flies, higher plants’ seeds and other biological materials onboard was launched with the help of Soyuz-2.1a booster from Baikonur spaceport.

Private American cargo vehicle Cygnus successfully docked with the harmony module with the help of manipulator.

Baikonur specialists finish preparation works before the launch of Soyuz-2.1a booster with Foton-M biosatellite and Progress M-24M cargo vehicle launch to the ISS both scheduled for July 2014.