Times Square Toshiba Vision Screen to showcase next Space Station launch

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 14:51

The Toshiba Vision screen in New York`s Times Square is going to show the public the next launch of three crew members to the International Space Station.

Chandrayaan 2 may be an all India mission

Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 00:39

Chandrayaan 2, the second mission to moon, could be an Indian programme all the way without any Russian support.

Russia`s carrier rocket explodes on takeoff at cosmodrome

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 13:53

An unmanned Russian Proton-M carrier rocket exploded today on takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in images broadcast live on national television.

Russia readies space freighter launch

Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013, 19:04

The launch of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket and Progress M-19M space freighter is scheduled for Wednesday.

Mice, lizards, snails part of Russian satellite crew

Last Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 18:58

Russia Friday launched a satellite with over 100 living creatures, including mice, lizards, snails as well as strains of bacteria, plants and seeds, as its "crew", federal space agency Roscosmos said.

`Russian space programme to focus on landing missions`

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 10:14

Landing missions to celestial bodies in the solar system will form the backbone of Russia`s space research programme in the coming decades, according to a Russian expert.

Russia to build anti-meteorite shield

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 18:43

Russia would build a system to protect the Earth from meteors and other space debris, Russian federal space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday.

Russia launches six Globalstar telecom satellites

Last Updated: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 11:04

A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying six telecom satellites has blasted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

ISS crew uses laser channel to beam data

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 16:54

Russian astronauts onboard the ISS have transferred scientific data using a laser communication channel for the first time.

Russia, US pick astronauts for yearlong mission

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 13:25

Russia`s federal space agency Roscosmos and NASA have chosen two participants for an experimental yearlong endurance mission to the International Space Station in 2015, Roscosmos said Monday.