International trio takes shortcut to space station
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.
Ecuador satellite hits Soviet-era space junk
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.
Nazarbayev discusses cooperation in airspace with foreign investors
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting with participants of the Foreign Investors Council yesterday.
KazSat-2 satellite will be 70% loaded by end of 2013: KazKosmos
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.
Canadian ISS astronaut returns to Earth a star
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.
KazKosmos builds reserve KazSat-2 control complex
Kazakhstan National Space Agency is building a reserve control center for KazSAT-2 near Almaty.
ISS crew ready for spacewalk after 'serious' ammonia leak
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.
Virgin Galactic tourist spaceship breaks sound barrier
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.
Orbital Sciences launches Antares rocket
US manufacturer Orbital Sciences launched its first Antares rocket Sunday, paving the way for a demonstration flight to the International Space Station within months.
French want to personally launch Kazakhstan satellite
Kazakhstan’s high-resolution Earth remote-sensing satellite scheduled for launch in 2014 from French cosmodrome Kuru has secret equipment.
Putin unveils $50 bn drive for Russian space supremacy
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.
Kazakhstan to continue space cooperation with Russia at Baikonur even beyond 2050: KazKosmos National Space Agency
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.
Russia’s President believes Kazakhstan-based Baikonur is obsolete
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.
Russia’s Roskosmos Space Agency suggests two scenarios of operations at Baikonur
Along the crisis scenario, Baikonur infrastructure will only be supported after 2021 to accommodate individual launches.
Three astronauts blast off on express ride to ISS
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.
Russia to solve problems with Kazakhstan by abandoning Proton
Head of RosKosmos Vladimir Popovkin declared that Proton launchers would be withdrawn from service after 2020.
NASA Curiosity rover back online after memory glitch
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.
Three astronauts return to Earth from ISS: official
Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space early Saturday, aboard a Russian capsule which landed on the freezing Kazakhstan steppe.
World's largest ground-based space array to open in Chile
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.
Kazakhstan cannot cope with falling of large meteorites
Kazakhstan has no system for warning or prevention of falling of celestial bodies: KazKosmos.