Russia in space

The International Space Station. Photo: depositphotos.com

The Russian space agency intends to leave the International Space Station

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However, no official announcement has yet been made, and even then, the Russians are obliged to give a year's notice in advance
Anti-satellite weapon. Illustration: shutterstock

The US will stop testing anti-satellite weapons and demand that this become an international norm; China: developing systems to tow satellites

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US Vice President Kamala Harris announced this in a review before the Space Guard; more than 1,600 pieces are floating in space since the Russian test about six months ago, over 2,400 pieces are still floating after 15
Soyuz launcher on the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia voluntarily disengages from the space programs, including the private ones

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The Russian space agency Roscosmos then dropped the launch from a launcher carrying satellites for the ONEWEB project as a continuation of punitive measures against the West in the field of space
A Soyuz spacecraft is approaching the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The head of the Russian space agency threatens: we will stop providing stabilization services to the International Space Station "from our side it will fall on the USA or Europe"

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Director of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin referred to the DMS-R facility used to navigate the station, although it was designed by the European Space Agency and integrated into the Russian component of the Zavezda space station * as well as the Progress cargo spacecraft
Sergey Kryklav in an official photo of the Russian Space Agency

Buried in space - the story of the cosmonaut who was abandoned in space

In 1991, cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev made one of the most difficult decisions of his life: to stay on the Soviet space station indefinitely. He did this even though he knew that the country that sent him into space had disbanded, and there was no one to replace him
space debris Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon test in which a downed satellite exploded and the resulting debris threatens the international and Chinese space stations

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Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon experiment in which an old Russian satellite exploded without prior warning to those responsible for the space sector in the Western armies, the Cosmos 1408 satellite was launched back in 1982 during the Soviet Union
The director of Russia's manned space program, Yevgeny Mikri, died of corona. Photo: Roscosmos

The director of the manned space program at the Russian space agency died of corona

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Simulation of the Clipper spacecraft. Source: RSC Energia.

Kliper - the spaceship that didn't fly

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Samantha Cristoforti, an astronaut from the European Space Agency on the International Space Station. Her return to Earth is delayed. Photo: NASA

About three weeks after the crash of the cargo spacecraft destined for the space station - failure of a second launch to Russia * The launch of the astronauts to the station was postponed

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The first launch of the Angara launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 23/12/14. Photo: Russian Space Agency

Russia successfully carried out the first launch of a new launcher - Angara

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A retro poster featuring an astronaut and a spaceship from the Soviet era. Illustration: shutterstock

The Soviet space program 1959-1981

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A model of the Buran ferry in Gorky Park in Moscow. Photo: shutterstock

The Russian space shuttle Buran - a sad end. Why?

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The orbit of the asteroid Apophis (red) between the orbits of Earth and Venus. From Wikipedia

Russia has plans to launch spacecraft to Mars, Venus and the asteroid Apophis

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The lander of Luna-Globe, a Russian spacecraft planned to fly to the moon in 2016

The Russians are preparing to return to the moon

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The gecko experiment on the Photon M4 satellite during preparations for launch. From the website of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Russia, IMBP

Russia has lost control of an experimental satellite with geckos on it

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Lunar Rover Lonkhod 2 on a 1984 Laos stamp. YANGCHAO / Shutterstock.com

Luna spacecraft to the moon (d)

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Lunar Rover 1. From Wikipedia

Luna spacecraft to the moon (c)

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The model of the Luna 16 spacecraft in the Astronautics Museum. From Wikipedia

Luna spacecraft to the moon (B)

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The Luna 1 spacecraft. Image from the NASA archive

Luna spacecraft to the moon (A)

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The Soyuz 31 spacecraft is connected to the Soliot 6 space laboratory. Photo: Soviet Space Agency

Soliot 6 Chapter XNUMX and last - representation for the countries of the communist bloc

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Salyut 6 space station - Soviet illustration.

Soliot 6 Chapter XNUMX - Triple connection in space

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The Salyut 6 space laboratory with a Soyuz spacecraft attached to it on one side and a Progress model supply spacecraft on the other. From Wikipedia

Soliot 6 - first part

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Soliot 6 on a Soviet stamp from 1978. Photo: shutterstock

Soliot 5

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Diagram of the Salyut 4 space station. Image: from Wikipedia

Soliot 4 - more than three years of activity in space

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Stamp commemorating the Soyuz 16 spacecraft. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com

Soyuz 16 - in preparation for the Apollo Soyuz flight

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Diagram of the Salyut 3 space laboratory. From Wikipedia

Soliot 3

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Salyut program logo. From Wikipedia

Soliot 2 - the station that broke up in space and which the Soyuz destined for it were converted to short scientific missions

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The Sliot 1 space laboratory as seen from the Soyuz 11 spacecraft that brought astronauts to it. From Wikipedia

Soliot 1 - a first-generation space laboratory, full of malfunctions and even disaster during the return of the Soyuz 11 crew

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Nikolay Neveshkin / Shutterstock.com

Soviet Union in space - Soyuz and Salyut. Chapter 3: Doubles and triplets in space - Soyuz 2,3; Soyuz 4,5 and Soyuz 6,7,8

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Rocks and mountains on the planet Venus. A view similar to the one where the landers of some of the Venera spacecraft landed. Image: shutterstock

Venus for the advanced - the Soviet flights to our neighbor in the solar system in the seventies

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Soviet stamp commemorating the Venera 1 mission. Photo: shutterstock

Venus - our closest neighbor and the target of many Soviet flights in the first decade of the space age. Part I

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The Amos 4 satellite arrives at the Baikonur Space Center for its launch on August 31, 2013. Photo: Russian space agency Roscosmos

The Amos 4 satellite arrived in Baikonur (photo gallery) in preparation for the launch on August 31 (4 photos were added 29/8)

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A stamp issued in Mongolia in honor of the Waskhud 2 spacecraft. Photo: shutterstock

The cosmonauts who got stuck in the spaceship 48 hours after landing without being able to open the doors - on the Vashud program

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Say hello in space. A stamp in honor of the Vostok program issued in the Soviet Union in 1961. Photo: shutterstock

The Vostok program - the first time people said hello to each other in space - including the first woman

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Mars exploration in Russia 1974-1962: successes and failures

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Apollo Soyuz mission badge. From Wikipedia

Apollo-Soyuz flight - 38 years ago this week. The mission step by step

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A Russian missile carrying three navigation satellites exploded during its launch in Baikonur early in the morning; The launch site was damaged

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Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman launched into space in a Vostok spacecraft on June 16, 1963. Photo: Russian space agency Roscosmos

The woman who defeated the USA - anniversary of the flight of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

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Russian mice returned from space after a month, the gerbils did not survive the journey

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Simulation of the orbits of the Russian satellite and the Chinese space fragment as done by AGI, January 2013

A piece of space debris from the satellite that the Chinese blew up in 2007 damaged a Russian satellite

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A Russian ballistic missile captured by cameras in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, on June 7, 2012, at 21:04 (Israel time). From YouTube

A Russian missile caused a flood of UFO reports

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Imaging of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Illustration: Roscosmos

Report: Phobos Geront spacecraft crashed in the Pacific Ocean

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The Soyuz launcher launched on December 23, and fell to the ground near Novosibirsk a few minutes later. Photo: Roscosmos

A Soyuz launcher crashed in Siberia after a launch malfunction on Friday

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The Phobos Grunt spacecraft lands on Phobos, at least in an early rendering by the Russian space agency

Mirror mirror in space, who is the biggest space power?

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The planned trajectory diagram of the Phobos spacecraft, stuck in low transit orbit. Illustration: Russian space agency Roscosmos

A race against the clock to save the Russian spacecraft Phobos before it crashes on Earth

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Imaging of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Illustration: Roscosmos

The Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft did not continue to Mars due to a malfunction

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The only thing missing from the Mars imaging mission MARS500 was real space microgravity. At least they managed to do it through photo manipulation for the occasion of April 1st. Photo: European Space Agency

The members of the Mars 500 test team left the simulator after a year and a half

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The first launch from Europe's new spaceport from French Guiana on October 21, 2011. Photo: Thilo Kranz, DLR

The historic launch of the "Soyuz" from South America

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Zvi Kaplan and Anatoly Paraminov sign the cooperation agreement between the space agencies of Israel and Russia in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Moshe Milner, CEO

An agreement for cooperation in the field of space was signed between the Israeli government and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos

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Space debris in low Earth orbit. Figure: European Space Agency ESA

Russia plans to "sweep" space

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