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SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft.

• 28 сентября 2016, 19:26

The Gaia space probe, launched in December 2013, has mapped more than a billion stars in the Milky Way.

• 14 сентября 2016, 18:03

Dozens of space scientists are desperately scouring the skies after losing track of a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Japanese satellite that was sent to study black holes.

• 28 марта 2016, 15:32

SpaceX launched a communications satellite to an orbit but failed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform.

• 05 марта 2016, 15:07

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev awarded Aidyn Aimbetov, the third Kazakh cosmonaut, Khalyk Kakharmany (People’s Hero) title.

• 15 октября 2015, 22:03

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 июня 2015, 14:30

Today Kazakhstan’s Baikonur celebrates its 60th anniversary.

• 04 июня 2015, 12:55

The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry humans farther in deep space than ever before, is poised to blast off in what NASA hailed as a first step in mankind's journey to Mars.

• 04 декабря 2014, 16:31

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut safely blasted off Sunday to begin its journey to the International Space Station.

• 24 ноября 2014, 11:45

NASA hailed the first-ever landing of a spacecraft on a comet as a "breakthrough moment" in the history of space exploration.

• 13 ноября 2014, 11:00

Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship is preparing to launch to the International Space Station.

• 27 октября 2014, 12:30

India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface.

• 25 сентября 2014, 15:10

India is on course to become the first nation to reach Mars on its first attempt.

• 24 сентября 2014, 14:33

NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to build America's next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017.

• 17 сентября 2014, 18:00

Russia plans to set up two station of the System of Differential Correction and Monitoring (SDCM) for GLONASS in Kazakhstan.

• 16 сентября 2014, 17:33

SpaceX's next unmanned cargo trip to restock supplies at the International Space Station is scheduled for September 20, the US space agency said.

• 13 сентября 2014, 10:56

Unmanned Cygnus cargo ship disintegrated as planned as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere after a month-long resupply mission.

• 18 августа 2014, 10:12

NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean.

• 30 июня 2014, 12:47

Kazakhstan has launched KazEOSat-2, its second medium resolution Earth observation satellite, from Russia.

• 20 июня 2014, 15:31

Kazakhstan's first remote sensing satellite KazEOSat-1 was launched on April 30 from Kourou space center in French Guiana

• 30 апреля 2014, 14:24