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From Energy - To Space
May 23, 2021

This year the civilian cosmonaut corps, later the cosmonaut corps of RSC Energia, hold their 55th anniversary. This is one of the highest spots in the history of the company. The first among civilians, back in 1964, was the developer and designer of the Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft K.P. Feoktistov. However the birthday became on May 23, 1966, when the first team of cosmonauts -engineers was formed in the flight test department of the Central Design Bureau of Experimental Machine Building with the active participation of the Chief Designer S.P.Korolev.

Egress into space on June 2
May 20, 2021

On June 2, 2021 the International Space Station Russian Segment crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Оleg Novitskiy and Petr Dubrov will egress into space to perform external operations on the station.
The crew will egress from the hatch of the Mini Research Module Poisk at 08:40 Moscow time. The planned duration of EVA operations of the cosmonauts is about 6 hours 50 minutes.

Nauka module equipped with European Robotic Arm ERA
May 20, 2021

At the Baikonur launch site, the program of manufacturer’s checkout tests draws to a close on the laboratory module Nauka for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station. In Area No.254 Processing Facility specialists from S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (which is a part of State Corporation Roscosmos) and European Space Agency performed the final processing operations for installing the European Robotic Arm (ERA) onto the hull of the new module.

“Nauka” module pneumatics and vacuum tests completed at Baikonur
May 12, 2021

At the Baikonur launch site, specialists from S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (which is a part of State Corporation Roscosmos) have successfully completed pneumatics and vacuum testing of the laboratory module Nauka. The tests, which lasted about a month, verified the pressure integrity of the hull, hatches and docking assemblies, as well as the functioning of pneumatic and hydraulic systems, propulsion system and external hydraulic systems after their installation.

Ground tests of MLM Nauka
May 11, 2021

Scheduled operations of the final phase of Factory Check Tests (FCT) on the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) Nauka of the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) continue at the Baikonur launch site under the program of ground pre-launch processing at the processing facility of Area 254.

Named after Korolev
May 6, 2021

For thirty years now, our company has been bearing the name of the Chief Designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.
By the Directive No.117 of the Ministry of General Machine-Building dated May 6, 1991, the Scientific and Production Association Energia was given the name of S.P.Korolev. A similar company’s in-house Directive No. 111 was issued on June 7, 1991.

The record-breaking flight of spacecraft Progress MS-14 has been completed
April 30, 2021

On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 02:11:30 Moscow time, transportation cargo spacecraft Progress MS-14 undocked nominally from the Zvezda module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. Following that it began a free flight, which lasted a little more than a day.

50 years of Soyuz-10 flight
April 23, 2021

On April 23, 1971, Soyuz-10 manned transportation spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur launch site carrying the crew of the first mission to the Salyut long-term orbital station (LOS) consisting of commander Vladimir Shatalov, flight engineer Alexei Eliseev and research engineer Nikolai Rukavishnikov.

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