New Russian light booster Soyuz-2.1V with Volga addon stage and Aist satellite made by students was installed onto the launching pad of Plesetsk spaceport, Russian Aerospace Defense troops press office representative Colonel Dmitry Zenin reported on Wednesday.

Russian astronomers operating a network of “Master” automatic telescopes discovered a new asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, - Irkutsk State University reported.

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree on creation of United Rocket and Space Corporation on the basis of JSC “Scientific research institute for space instrument development”. The text of the act is posted on official legal information webpage.

3 launches of GLONASS navigational system satellites are planned for 2014, - Aerospace Defense Force commander major-general Alexander Golovko stated.

Humanlike robot designed for spacewalks will be demonstrated to the specialists and journalists in Star City on November 27, GCTC representative reported.

Joint scientific projects in the field of space exploration can become a perspective direction of Russia and EU scientists’ cooperation, - Russian Academy of Science President Vladimir Fortunov states.

“Rokot” booster with 3 European Swarm satellites designed to study earth’s magnetic field was launched from Plesetsk spaceport, representative of Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The International Space Station is a stronghold of the mankind on the orbit. It goes round the Earth 16 times a day at the height of about 400 km. The ISS is the largest flying object, designed by leading space countries.

Soviet space shuttle Buran was ahead of his time and in most criteria left American “space-shuttle” system, behind, – as…

At 23.46 UTC on November 11 (03.46 Moscow time, November 12) Proton-M booster with Briz-M upper stage and Raduga-M military…