According to the decision taken by State Commission on February 15, at 04.00, Moscow time, rocket and space industry launching crews rolled-out Soyuz-U booster with Progress M026M cargo vehicle from the integration building to #1 launchpad (Gagarin launch). The rocket was installed and the specialists started working in accordance with the first launching day schedule. Before the launch they have to test the facilities and systems both of the rocket and ground-based equipment and gill the booster’s tanks with propellant components and pressurized gas.

RSC Energia, Progress rocket and space centre and Yuzhny space centre specialists completed works on assembling Progress M-26M space head in the integration building of #254 launchpad on February 12: nose fairing was installed on the vehicle. Before the vehicle was examined and photographed.

Under the contract with European Arianespace Company Russia will deliver 13 Soyuz-ST boosters to be launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana by 2019, - Progress Rocket and Space Centre who is the designer of these boosters Director General Alexander Kirilin reported yesterday.

Baikonur specialists go on working on ISS program implementation.

From January 19 up to February 9, 2015 GCTC is conducting winter survival trainings for future ISS mission crews.

In the framework of preparations for 70th Anniversary of the Great Victory Celebration Roscosmos plans to send an exact copy of the victory Banner to the ISS (the copy of the banner raised by the 150th Rifle 'Idritskaya' Division soldiers on the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 1, 1945.

On Monday, January 19, space flight participant Sarah Brightman who will be a crew member of Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft started her training in Gagarin Cosmonaut training Centre.

Preparations for the final launches in 2014 are under way at Baikonur. Today, on December 2014, rocket and space industry specialists rolled out two boosters to the launching pads of the spaceport.

Russian Soyuz-ST booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and four European 03b satellites to provide internet communication for the distant parts of the world was successfully launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Two Russian satellites Lomonosov and Aist will be delivered to Vostochny spaceport in June-July 2015, - Roscosmos Head Oleg Ostapenko stated.