Tag: roscosmos
1 year of Twitter under Musk, Cruise pulls all self-driving cars
Elon Musk wrote within hours of buying Twitter that he “didn’t do it because it would be easy”. That statement has proven to be one of the few certainties about his […]
Cosmonaut who performed first spacewalk dies aged 85
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow aged 85. Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed his death in a statement on its […]
Multinational crew lifts off for International Space Station
A multinational crew made up of an American, a Russian and the first space traveller from the United Arab Emirates blasted off successfully on Wednesday for a mission on the […]
Mars Rover assembly complete ahead of 2020 launch
The assembly of the ExoMars Rover is now complete ahead of its proposed blast-off date next year. However, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars mission to the Red Planet could […]
Space station relocates capsule to help Soyuz
The crew of the International Space Station has successfully relocated a Soyuz space capsule to another docking port to facilitate the rendezvous with another spacecraft. The manoeuvre followed Saturday’s failed […]
Russian capsule carrying robot fails Space Station docking
A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station. A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the failure […]
Glasgow-built supercomputer satellites blast into orbit
Glasgow-built satellites which could revolutionise how data is downloaded from space have been sent into orbit around Earth after blasting off on a Russian rocket on Friday morning. A pair […]
Astronauts arrive safely on International Space Station
The latest batch of astronauts to take up residence on board the International Space Station (ISS) have arrived safely following a six-hour flight. Astronauts Anne McClain from American space […]
Astronauts blast off to ISS less than two months after failed launch
Astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) less than two months after the previous Soyuz mission failed. Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency NASA, David Saint-Jacques […]
Russia space agency chief aims to verify US moon landings
The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real. “We have […]
