State Space Corporation Roscosmos

Roscosmos cleared the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket for rollout and installation at the Baikonur launch pad on 2022-03-02 and scheduled the launch for 2022-03-04 at 22:41 UTC.

The Roscosmos decision will delay a Soyuz launch of two Galileo navigation satellites that had been scheduled for April 2022 from French Guiana.

Roscosmos is halting cooperation with European partners on Soyuz launches from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana as of 2022-02-26.

ExoMars 2022 involves the European-built Rosalind Franklin rover and a Roscosmos-made lander.

Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, posted on Twitter on 2022-02-23 that he has a good working relationship with NASA while criticizing the U.S. government.

Roscosmos and its head Dmitry Rogozin identified an initial U.S. refusal to issue a visa to cosmonaut Nikolai Chub for training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on 2022-01-22.

The Rosalind Franklin rover and the Kazachok surface platform, provided by Roscosmos, will land in the Oxia Planum region of Mars in June 2023.

Roscosmos issued a statement on 2021-12-27 indicating the Persei upper stage still had several maneuvers to perform to reach geostationary orbit and provided no further public updates acknowledging the Persei failure or its reentry.

Roscosmos selected cosmonaut Anna Kikina to fly to the International Space Station on a SpaceX commercial crew mission in the fall of 2022.

A Soyuz spacecraft launched on 2021-12-08 carrying two Japanese private astronauts and a Roscosmos cosmonaut for Space Adventures.

Roscosmos’ subsidiary Glavcosmos signed a contract with ISRO in June 2019 to support training for India’s human spaceflight program.

The joint statement following the 2021-12-06 summit welcomed enhanced cooperation between the State Space Corporation Roscosmos and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), including in human spaceflight programs and satellite navigation.

The medium-lift Soyuz launcher is produced by Progress Space Rocket Center, which is part of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for space operations, stated that NASA and Roscosmos are studying the cracks and conducting ground-based testing.

NASA and Roscosmos are collaborating to understand the root cause of the 2021-10-15 attitude excursion.

NASA used Axiom Space to acquire the Soyuz seat for Mark Vande Hei, with Axiom buying the seat from Roscosmos and transferring it to NASA in exchange for a seat on a future commercial crew mission.

Roscosmos plans to send director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild to the International Space Station on Soyuz MS-19 for a nearly two-week stay to film scenes for a movie and return on Soyuz MS-18 with Oleg Novitskiy.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, tweeted on 2021-08-29 that Roscosmos had for months been transferring almost all oxygen produced by its enterprises to hospitals, which has postponed testing of rocket engines.

Dr. Dmitry Rogozin is the Director General of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos.

Roscosmos originally proposed launching Nauka in 2007 and experienced repeated delays including a required replacement of the module’s propulsion system.