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Yesterday, on February 03, 2016, Russian cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov sucessfully completed the first spacewalk in accordance with Russian ISS flight program for 2016.

Russian Satellite Communications Company plans to launch satellites by Proton boosters only up to 2020, - Company’s Director General Yuri Prokhorov said.

On Sunday Proton-M booster and Briz-M upper stage successfully orbited Eutelsat 9B satellite. The launch was initially scheduled for for January 28, but was shifted due to weather conditions and took place on January 30, at 01.20, Moscow time.

On January 27, 2016, according to the ISS flight schedule the station’s orbit was adjusted to provide conditions for future 4-orbit scheme docking with Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to be launched in March 2016.

Today, on Tuesday, Proton-M booster with Eutelsat-9B European telecommunication satellite was installed on the launchpad of Baikonur spaceport as planned, - Khrunichev Centre representative reports.

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Proton booster will be launched for European Space Agency needs according to EDRS program from Baikonur spaceport on January 27, 2016, - ESA Head Johann-Dietrich Wörner reported on Friday.

In 2016 the first spacewalk in the framework of Russian Program is planned for February 3, - Mission Control Centre representative reported.

In 2016 Russia will launch four manned and three cargo vehicles to the International Space Station in the framework if ISS flight schedule.

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai started their preflight trainings in Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Moscow region.