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ISS reboost maneuver was to take place on January 16 to create optimal conditions for Progress M-22M cargo vehicle launched from Baikonur on February 5 docking with the ISS. However today the spokesman for space industry reported that Station reboost maneuver scheduled for January 16 was shifted to January 18 because of space debris.

According to ILS press-office 6-tons device Intelsat-31 (Intelsat DLA-2)will be launched first in 2015 , it has to provide TV broadcasting for Latin America. Now the satellite is being designed by SSL company.

Roscosmos: main threats are first of all the danger of new armament race in the space, near-Earth space contamination increasing the opportunity of satellites collision and asteroid danger.

According to press-service of Roscosmos, Russia is going to perform 7 space launches in February-March. Different modifications of Soyuz booster, Proton and Rokot launch vehicles will provide continuation of Russian manned and science programs.

During unscheduled spacewalk Russian cosmonauts will have to re-install mid and high resolution cameras on the external surface of the ISS. Doing their previous EVA on December 27 crewmembers failed to complete the entire program: installed cameras didnt work properly.

Progress Design Engineering Bureau of Samara is working on designing Resource-P #2 and Resource-P #3 Earth remote sensing satellites to…

On January 11, 2014 world-famous Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre celebrated its 54th anniversary. Situated in Star City (Moscow region), restricted…

This Friday, on January 10, 2014 MCC specialists took a decision on unscheduled spacewalks to be performed on January 27…

Preparation works for the first space launches in 2014 started at Baikonur spaceport today. Fuel service units operation centre crew…

RIA Novosti – Kazakhstan wants a permanent Russian presence at the Baikonur space center, the head of its space program…