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Gagarin's pioneering feat

55 years ago: Vostok enters orbit

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April 22: A Soyuz-ST rocket to launch a 2,300-kilogram Sentinel-1B satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 690 kilometers from Kourou, French Guiana, along with secondary payloads.

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LATEST NEWS, UPDATES

Progress M-29M deorbits

Russian instruments on ExoMars powered up

Progress MS-02 arrives at ISS

Resurs-DK1 completes a decade-long mission

Parsing ExoMars launch mystery

Soyuz delivers second Bars-M satellite

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT

Soyuz TMA-20M arrives at ISS

"Year in Space" crew lands successfully!

Cosmonauts complete station spacewalk

Successor to Soyuz named!

Soyuz' close-call docking scrutinized

MOB-1/KVTK space tug

MILITARY SPACE

GLONASS-51 to replenish Russia's navigation network

Proton delivers second Garpun

New EKS satellite to fly in 2016

Kanopus-ST falls back to Earth

Russia begins reviving its early-warning satellite system

Russia mobilizes satellites for Syrian campaign

COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

First rocket reaches launch pad in Vostochny

Resurs-P3 maneuvers despite problems

"Last-minute" Soyuz launch added to Galileo program

Rockot successfully launches Sentinel-3A

Proton successfully delivers Eutelsat-9B

Elektro-L2 begins operations

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ExoMars-2016 heads to the Red Planet

ExoMars-2016 lifts off!

ExoMars-2016's difficult road to Baikonur

Spektr-RG to begin final assembly

Spektr-UF observatory survives budget cuts

Luna-Glob faces new delays in 2015

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ROCKETRY

Briz-M upper stage

Soyuz booster stages assembled in Vostochny

Angara in Vostochny scaled down

Year-end activities in Vostochny

Briz-M explodes in orbit

Angara-5P enters full-scale development

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HISTORY

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Roskosmos transformed from agency to state corporation

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