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Proton-M booster with Yamal-401 space device will be launched a day earlier: on December 15 instead of December 16, as was planned before, - Roscosmos representative reported.

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Preparations for the launch of Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and O3b space devices are under way in Guiana Space Centre (French Guiana).

At Baikonur spaceport specialists go on preparing Proton-M booster with Briz-M upper stage and Russian Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite for the…

Russia will start developing and testing new navigational satellites in 2018, - Aerospace defence Troops commander Lieutenant General Alexander Golovko reported.

Testings of new Russian ecologically friendly booster of Angara series will be finished at Plesetsk spaceport in 2020.

The second Russian new generation navigational satellite Glonass-K was successfully orbited, - Russian Ministry of Defence Aerospace Defence troops press-office representative colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported.

Soyuz-2.1b medium booster with Glonass-K space device was installed on the launchpad of Plesetsk spaceport in accordance with the State commission decision, - Russian Ministry of Defence Aerospace Defence troops press-office representative colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported.

The postponement of Proton-M booster launch with European Astra-2G space device won’t affect the launch of Proton-M with Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite planned for December 26.

The launch of European Astra-2G telecommunication satellite scheduled for November 28 was indefinitely postponed. Proton-M booster already installed on the launchpad will be transported back to the integration building.