The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos has been sacked after just two and a half years. Russia’s space chief Yuri Borisov has been replaced by former Roscosmos staffer and former ...

The Russians have big ambitions for their space program. They are planning a new space station to replace their share of the International Space Station when it ends its operational life around 2030.

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries’ intertwined space exploration ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse — with national pride and billions of dollars at stake.

Dmitry Bakanov, general director of the Russian Space Agency, recently announced a bold new policy. Over the next five years, Russia will try to create an "analogue of Starlink" by launching 292 new ...

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia's official space agency, may have a plan to offset the decline. Late last month, Putin approved changes to federal laws governing ...

On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Economic problems in the Soviet Union doomed the Buran program to failure. The intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed... Key Point: The ...