site.news_by_theme space

Nearly 40 years ago, European countries worried by US and Soviet dominance of space gave the green light to the first Ariane rocket.

• 03 июня 2013, 11:41

An international trio flying in a Russian capsule docked the International Space Station on Wednesday with a busy schedule full of space walks and an encounter with a pioneering US cargo craft.

• 29 мая 2013, 14:54

A tiny Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket survived the crash, but was damaged and is not transmitting.

• 24 мая 2013, 15:26

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting with participants of the Foreign Investors Council yesterday.

• 22 мая 2013, 16:14

KazSat-2 is functioning normally, it is currently 64% loaded and we plan to achieve a 70% load of the satellite by the end of the year: Talgat Mussabayev.

• 17 мая 2013, 15:35

Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the ISS that saw him become a global celebrity through his Twitter microblog.

• 14 мая 2013, 10:25

Kazakhstan National Space Agency is building a reserve control center for KazSAT-2 near Almaty.

• 13 мая 2013, 17:37

The ISS crew were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious" leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's power system seeping into space.

• 11 мая 2013, 14:03

Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier at high altitude.

• 30 апреля 2013, 16:24

US manufacturer Orbital Sciences launched its first Antares rocket Sunday, paving the way for a demonstration flight to the International Space Station within months.

• 22 апреля 2013, 11:27

Kazakhstan’s high-resolution Earth remote-sensing satellite scheduled for launch in 2014 from French cosmodrome Kuru has secret equipment.

• 17 апреля 2013, 16:18

President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome.

• 12 апреля 2013, 18:10

Tengrinews.kz reported earlier, citing Russia’s Izvestia, that Russia may bring its operations at the Baikonur cosmodrome close to zero as early as by 2020.

• 12 апреля 2013, 17:09

We are aligning projects so that Baikonur could be also used. Surely, we will be exploiting it in partnership with space experts and agencies of Kazakhstan: Vladimir Putin.

• 12 апреля 2013, 15:11

Along the crisis scenario, Baikonur infrastructure will only be supported after 2021 to accommodate individual launches.

• 08 апреля 2013, 13:35

A crew of two Russians and an American blasted off Friday on a Russian rocket for the International Space Station, in a trip scheduled to be the fastest ever manned journey to the facility.

• 29 марта 2013, 18:48

Head of RosKosmos Vladimir Popovkin declared that Proton launchers would be withdrawn from service after 2020.

• 29 марта 2013, 15:56

NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back.

• 22 марта 2013, 19:36

Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space early Saturday, aboard a Russian capsule which landed on the freezing Kazakhstan steppe.

• 16 марта 2013, 12:52

In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business Wednesday ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might.

• 13 марта 2013, 15:23