While Russia continues to lease Baikonur Cosmodrome, it has so far returned over fifty decommissioned facilities to Kazakhstan. The government now plans to use them to create a vibrant tourism ...

MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. Former CEO of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (a Rostec subsidiary) Vladimir Solntsev, as well as a number of other suspects, is charged with misappropriation of ...

Russia’s space engineers spent years designing futuristic spacecraft for missions to Mars with little hope they would survive the financial meltdown of the nation’s once-glorious space program. But ...

The deputy director and two other top executives of Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation have been arrested on suspicion of attempted fraud, investigators say. "Energia's deputy director, ...

Space capabilities remained vital to the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War for maintaining its prestige as a peer superpower to the United States, and Moscow had ambitious plans to deploy the Buran ...

Transition to a three-stage pattern of the carrier rocket and rational use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel has allowed for slashing the costs of developing a new super-heavy rocket by 30% MOSCOW, May 17.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A full-size mockup of a Russian space shuttle is leaving Moscow for an exhibition center opening ...