Roscosmos
The ExoMars program’s TGO and the lander Schiaparelli have been successfully launched
ESA and Roscosmos’ TGO spacecraft and Schiaparelli lander launched atop a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After about 10 minutes, the Breeze M upper stage separated and began the ten and a half hours of maneuvers that will take them out of the Earth’s orbit and en route to the planet Mars.
The return of three astronauts from the International Space Station marks the end of Expedition 46
A few hours ago, the cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko and the American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, landed without problems in Kazakhstan. Volkov spent about six months on the International Space Station, where he arrived on September 4, 2015 as part of Expedition 45. Kornienko and Kelly spent 340 days on the Station, where they arrived on March 28, 2015 as part of Expedition 43.
The new Roscosmos starts its activities
Today the new Roscosmos starts its activities as a state corporation that replaces the old Russian space agency, officially dissolved on December 28 2015 with a decree of President Vladimir Putin. It’s an important step in the reorganization of the Russian space program began in 2013 in an attempt to revamp it and above all to solve the problems it’s been suffering.
The Russian spacecraft Progress MS-1 has reached the International Space Station
A little while ago the Progress MS-1 spaceship docked with the International Space Station in the mission also referred to as Progress 62. The Russian space freighter, which blasted off last Monday, carries food, water, scientific experiments, propellant and various hardware. It’s an important success for the new version of the Progress spacecraft.
