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Crippled by war and sanctions, Russia now faces evidence that its already-struggling space program is falling apart. In the past three months alone, Roscosmos has scrambled to resolve two alarming ...
Head of Russian Space Program Mysteriously Axed. Story by Victor Tangermann • 3mo. The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos has been sacked after just two and a half years.
Despite its early success in the space race, Russia’s once-dominant space program has faced setbacks from corruption by Russian officials and contractors, and incidents like the coolant leaks.
Russia's departure from the space station comes as tensions are high between the two nations due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is unclear how U.S.-Russian relations will be affected by the move.
Russia's space program is declining thanks in part to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. That's according to leaked US intelligence, which also seemed to list Elon Musk's SpaceX as a factor.
Russia will pull out of the International Space Station project after 2024, the new director of the Russian space program said Tuesday, but no firm dates or plans were revealed and it was not ...
Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time.
But the Russian space program has stalled for years, plagued by sparse budgets. And that was before Vladimir Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine: Some of the space plans the country still had in the ...
Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024 and will focus on deployment of its own space station, the head of the Russian space agency said Tuesday.
Russia’s military space program consists of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), other military satellite networks and various projects including communications, ...
Russia's space program has seen better days. Its decline is perhaps best embodied in its Soyuz spacecraft, once the ever-dependable, go-to vessel for ferrying both NASA and Roscosmos astronauts to ...