New Delhi (IANS) Dec 31, 2018 - In major boost to India's ambitious programme to send astronauts to space, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 10,000-crore Gaganyaan Programme that envisages two unmanned and one manned flights to
New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed and demonstrated most of the baseline technologies essential for undertaking a human spaceflight mission. Prior to the actual launch, two
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 28, 2018 - India will send a three-member team into orbit for up to a week when it launches its first manned space mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday.
Vostochny (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2018 - The Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying Russian Kanopus-V satellites number five and number six and foreign spacecraft successfully lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, a Sputnik cor
Vostochny (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2018 - The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with two Russian and 26 foreign satellites lifted off from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East on Thursday, which became the fourth launch from the cosmodrome.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 27, 2018 - Russia touted Thursday a new hypersonic missile said to hit speeds of more than 30,000 kilometres per hour, amid heightened tension with the US over arms control.
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2018 - Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev on Monday dismissed rumours on social networks about the ISS crew in the light of the situation with the hole in the Soyuz MS-09 spaceship. A lot has alread
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2018 - In 2018, the number of space launches carried out throughout the world surpassed 100 for the first time since 1990, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Wednesday, addin
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2018 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed final tests of a hypersonic missile, which he earlier said would render existing missile defence systems obsolete.
Washington (UPI) Dec 26, 2018 - It was a big year for space flight and exploration, as private companies kicked a 21st century space race into full gear. SpaceX launched 21 missions as others watched new vessels undergo testing and some escaped the Earth's atmosphere for the first time.
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 25, 2018 - Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's Roscosmos state corporation, may apply for US visa not earlier than in January 2019, as the program of the visit has not been prepared yet, a spokesperson for Ro
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 25, 2018 - The last test launch of the Soyuz-2.1v light-class carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia is planned for next year, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik. The
Los Angeles (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2018 - The reliable and relatively cheap RD-180 engine is designed by a Russian research and development company especially for the US Atlas carrier rockets, but there are reportedly plans to put them to u
Evry, France (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 - For its 11th and final launch of the year - and the third in 2018 with the Soyuz medium-lift launcher - Arianespace successfully orbited the CSO-1 military Earth observation satellite for the French
Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2018 - China on 22 December successfully launched the first satellite of its Hongyun project, which seeks to create a network of communication satellites on the low Earth orbit in order to provide stable i
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2018 - The scientific and technical council of Russia's Space Corporation Roscosmos has chosen the variant proposed by the Progress Rocket and Space Center (SRC Progress) and the head of Roscosmos Dmitry R
