News about space

Roskosmos confirms Kazakhstan cosmonaut will fly to ISS in September Aidyn Aimbetov will replace world’s best-selling soprano Sarah Brightman who was supposed to go on a $52 million 10-day trip aboard the International Space Station.
23 June 2015
Russia to make launches from Baikonur until 2024 Head of the Russian Space Agency Igor Komarov declared that Russia will be continuing launches from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome until 2024, when it will switch to its own Vostochny Cosmodrome.
06 June 2015
Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome celebrates its 60th anniversary Today Kazakhstan’s Baikonur celebrates its 60th anniversary.
04 June 2015
Kazakhstan's plans to transition to ecologically safe rockets disrupted Kazakhstan is experiencing disruptions in the transition from Proton carrier rocket to more environmentally friendly Angara booster.
31 May 2015
Radio silence as Russia tries to contact space cargo Russia will try again to make contact with an unmanned cargo ship after communications were lost following the spacecraft's launch toward the International Space Station.
29 April 2015
Flooding in Kazakhstan as seen from satellite Satellite photos of flooding in Karaganda Oblast have been published by Kazakhstani national space company.
16 April 2015
Russia confirms will use International Space Station till 2024 Russia will continue using the International Space Station along with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to stop financing it in 2020.
25 February 2015
Kazakh airlines to lower plane ticket prices Plane ticket prices in Kazakhstan will be lowered amid the lowering jet fuel prices in Kazakhstan.
20 February 2015
NASA delays spacewalk to Saturday to analyze spacesuit The start of a series of spacewalks to carry out major work at the International Space Station will be delayed by a day to Saturday so NASA can investigate a spacesuits problem.
20 February 2015
Russia to keep using Kazakhstan's Baikonur despite constructing Vostochny cosmodrome: Russia’s Ambassador Back in August 2014 the country’s media reported that Russia was intending to stop financing Baikonur starting from 2016.
12 February 2015
SpaceX launches deep-space weather observatory A $340 million satellite that aims to alert people to potentially dangerous solar activity and geomagnetic storms blasted off toward deep space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
12 February 2015
SpaceX calls off launch of space-weather satellite SpaceX's launch of a $340 million sun-observing spacecraft that was initially dreamed up by former US vice president Al Gore was postponed.
09 February 2015
NASA hails spending boost under Obama budget proposal NASA hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa.
03 February 2015
SpaceX chief Elon Musk eyes Internet satellites: report High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has reportedly added global Internet access from satellites to his vision of a future alongside sporty electric cars.
26 January 2015
Google aboard as Musk's SpaceX gets $1 bn in funding The private space exploration firm SpaceX said it had secured a $1 billion investment that could help founder Elon Musk's plan to build a satellite Internet network.
21 January 2015
SpaceX poised for cargo, rocket-recycle launch SpaceX will try again to launch a load of cargo to the International Space Station and recycle its Falcon 9 rocket by landing a key part on an ocean platform.
10 January 2015
SpaceX to try ocean platform landing of Falcon rocket SpaceX aims to propel modern rocket science into a brave new era by landing a key part of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
06 January 2015
India launches biggest ever rocket into space India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, including an unmanned capsule which could one day send astronauts into space.
18 December 2014
Kazakhstan needs asteroid observation stations: astrophysicist Many space objects remain undiscovered and some of them pose a threat to the Earth. Astrophysicist Victor Teifel says it is time to build a special station for detection of asteroids in Kazakhstan.
15 December 2014
Orion launch is trial by fire for Apollo-era heat shield NASA's Orion vehicle aims to carry humans farther into space than ever before, but its protective heat shield is basically the same as that used for the Apollo Moon missions.
06 December 2014
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