State Space Corporation Roscosmos

The European Space Agency and Roscosmos delayed ExoMars 2020 high altitude parachute drop tests to late March 2020.

Heads of ESA and Roscosmos were scheduled to meet on 2020-03-12 to jointly agree next steps for the ExoMars project following a progress report.

NASA planned to negotiate with Roscosmos for additional Soyuz seats in case commercial crew providers could not enter service in 2020.

NASA is negotiating with the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos to obtain additional Soyuz seats for NASA astronauts after current Soyuz seat agreements expire in fall 2020.

NASA has ongoing discussions with Roscosmos about acquiring additional Soyuz seats.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine formally requested two additional Soyuz seats in an Oct. 24 letter to Roscosmos.

Sergei Krikalev of Roscosmos stated that NASA has made only a preliminary request for additional Soyuz seats.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine indicated that there will likely be negotiations for at least one additional Soyuz seat with Roscosmos.

Cassidy will use the last Soyuz seat currently reserved by NASA with Roscosmos.

Russia’s contribution to the lunar Gateway will probably involve a transportation system, such as the crewed spacecraft Roscosmos has been developing that could provide an alternative to NASA’s Orion for crew transport to the Gateway.

GK Launch Services is an operator of commercial launches established by the decision of Roscosmos and is authorized to conclude commercial contracts for launches using Soyuz-2 family launch vehicles from Russian spaceports.

Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration committed to cooperation on Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter and China’s Chang’e-7 polar landing mission.

GK Launch Services is working with Roscosmos to develop a Soyuz 2M variant based on the Soyuz-2.1b without the Fregat upper stage.

Roscosmos plans to test FEDOR/Skybot F-850’s ability to support cosmonauts on the ISS during a short stay before Soyuz MS-14 returns to Earth in early September.

Roscosmos is preparing to launch the uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on 2019-08-21 to validate the upgraded Soyuz-2.1a rocket for future Soyuz missions.

Roscosmos is providing the Proton rocket, the surface platform, and part of the science payload for ExoMars 2020.

Luna 27 is a planned lunar lander mission by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) with collaboration by the European Space Agency to send a lander to the Moon’s South Pole by 2024/2025.

Roscosmos will launch the humanoid robot FEDOR on an uncrewed Soyuz launch in August to test using the Soyuz-2 rocket to launch that spacecraft.

Roscosmos plans a new Gonets-2 satellite constellation to provide Internet of Things communications for infrastructure such as bridges and railroads.

NASA was in discussions with Roscosmos in February 2019 to purchase two Soyuz seats that Roscosmos was not planning to use for fall 2019 and spring 2020 flights to the station.