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ESCAPE!

40 years ago, a fire broke out on the launch pad 1 in Baikonur, just one minute 48 seconds before a scheduled blastoff of the Soyuz T spacecraft with two cosmonauts onboard.

 

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Mid-November: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch the Resurs-P No. 4 satellite from Site 31 in Baikonur. (As of September 2023)

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... and beyond

 

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HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Soyuz MS-23 returns to Earth

Soyuz MS-24 delivers crew to ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Concept of a lunar reactor revealed

Progress MS-24 arrives at ISS

INSIDER CONTENT: Cosmonauts complete VKD-60 spacewalk
MILITARY SPACE

Russia launches newly redesigned navigation satellite

Roskosmos launches radar-observation satellite

Russian satellites in choreographed action in orbit

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara awaits its payloads

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara-1.2 flies its second mission
COMMERCIAL AND APPLICATION SPACE

INSIDER CONTENT: Russia plans Starlink equivalent

Soyuz launches a Meteor weather satellite and a cluster of hitchhikers

Ekspress-AM5 experiences technical problems in orbit

Ekspress-AMU4 struggles with import ban

Elektro-L4 completes meteorological constellation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Luna-Glob failure scenario emerges

INSIDER CONTENT: Prototypes of the Luna-Glob hardware

INSIDER CONTENT: Luna-Glob reaches launch pad

INSIDER CONTENT: Luna-Glob to witness solar wind hitting lunar surface

INSIDER CONTENT: Propulsion system of the Luna-Glob spacecraft

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ROCKETRY

INSIDER CONTENT: Kazakhstan to postpone Baiterek project

INSIDER CONTENT: Reusable rocket advances through Technical Design

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara pad in Vostochny nears completion

INSIDER CONTENT: Angara-NZh to wait for integrated tests

INSIDER CONTENT: New engine paves the way to reusable launcher
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HISTORY

50 years ago: USSR resumes crew missions after deadly accident

INSIDER CONTENT: The D2 space tug for the L3M expeditionary complex revealed

50 years ago: N1-No. 7L

50 years ago: Kosmos-573 re-confirms Soyuz fixes

INSIDER CONTENT: DOS-3: Skylab's challenger

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