Preparation works for Proton-M with Inmarsat-5F2 satellite launch are under way at Baikonur. Yesterday, January 26, 2015, in 92A-50 integration building of Baikonur spaceport rocket and space industry specialists completed technological operations on rocket assembling and testing. Today morning Proton-M booster with space headcomprising briz-M upper stage and Inmarsat-5F2 space device installed on it was delivered to the filling area

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

Russian automated station Venera-D initially planned to be launched in 2016 will be sent to space in 2025, - as stated in the theses by Lavochkin Research and Production Association who is the designer of this space device.

The specialists go on with preparation works for the launch of Inmarsat-5F2 space device manufactured on the order of Inmarsat (Great Britain) satellite communication operator scheduled for February 1, 2015. The initial weight of the space device will amount approximately to 6 tons.

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.

British singer Sarah Brightman will pass survival trainings in a near-Moscow forest on January 23, - GCTC press office reported.

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.

Russian rocket producer Energiya President Vladimir Solntsev and US Orbital Sciences Corporation General Director David Thompson signed a direct contract worth around $1 billion on the delivery to the United States of engines produced by Energomash (a subsidiary of Energiya).

Vegitel Tour Company continues the program of Zero Gravity flights onboard Ilyushin-76 MDK, the world's biggest plane able to create Zero-G. So you've got a great opportunity to feel like real astronauts. The next flight is scheduled for August 25, 2015.

Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu to be Sarah Brightman back-up crew member will start training in Star City late this month.