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Roscosmos: preparations started for the launch of manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-15
May 7, 2019

Work has started at the Baikonur launch site to prepare for launch the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-15. In the processing facility of Area No.112, rocket stages of Soyuz-FG were unloaded from rail cars.
The launch of Soyuz MS-15 to the International Space Station is scheduled for September 2019. The crew consists of: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri.

RSC Energia developed a one-orbit rendezvous profile
April 25, 2019

The RSC Energia specialists developed a one-orbit flight profile of SC which implies rendezvous with the International Space Station within about 2 hours.
The main advantage of such a profile is the reduction of the time spent by cosmonauts in a small volume of SC. One more advantage of this one-orbit rendezvous profile is a quick delivery of various biomaterials to the Station to conduct scientific experiments onboard the ISS. In addition, the quicker is the spacecraft rendezvous with the station, the more is the saving of propellant and other resources required to support the flight.

RSC Energia: 48 years since the launch of the Salyut station
April 19, 2019

On April 19, 1971 there was a launch of the world's first long-duration orbital station (LDOS) Salyut.
The station development began in late 1969. Yu.P. Semenov was appointed as lead designer of the project. When working on LDOS the following was used: existing hardware of the orbital module of the Almaz military station the work on which was performed at TsKBM, and the onboard systems of the Soyuz spacecraft.

Energia celebrated the Cosmonautics Day
April 12, 2019

On April 12, the staff of RSC Energia, the leading company in the Russian rocket and space industry, celebrated their professional holiday.
In the morning, Nikolai Sevastianov and representatives of RSC Energia within a Roscosmos delegation headed by Dmitri Rogozin took part in the ceremony of laying flowers at the burial sites of S.P. Korolev and Y.A. Gagarin in the Kremlin wall.
Celebrations on the corporate premises began with the traditional laying of flowers to the memorial plaques to Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko. After that a delegation of the company’s employees visited other memorial sites in the town of science.

Victor Blagov passed away
April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019, passed away Victor Dmitrievich Blagov.
He dedicated his life to space. Milestones in his life are the milestones in the development of space industry.
Victor Blagov joined Energia in 1959 after graduating from Moscow Aviation Institute. He rose through the ranks from an engineer to deputy head of division/head of department. He took part in designing crew transportation spacecraft Vostok and Voskhod, in preapations for and conduct of the first joint international mission of Soyuz-19 and Apollo spacecraft.

Cargo transport vehicle Progress MS-11 docked with the ISS
April 4, 2019

On April 4 at 17:25 Moscow time cargo transport vehicle (CTV) Progress MS-11 developed and manufactured by RSC Energia successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
The docking occurred in the automatic mode. The final approach process was controlled from the Station by Russian cosmonauts – the ISS crew commander Oleg Kononenko and flight engineer Aleksei Ovchinin.

RSC Energia: cargo vehicle Progress MS-11 is launched to the ISS
April 4, 2019

Today, on April 4, at 14:01 Moscow time, the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Progress MS-11 cargo transport vehicle (CTV) developed and manufactured by RSC Energia was successfully launched from Pad No. 31 of the Baikonur Launch Site.
According to telemetry information, the separation of the vehicle from the launch vehicle stage III passed normally. The deployment of antennas and solar arrays was recorded. The vehicle was under control of specialists of the Lead Operational Control Team of the International Space Station Russian Segment (LOCT ISS RS) at MCC.

RSC Energia presents condolences on the death of Natalia Fileva
April 1, 2019

The management and the personnel of RSC Energia offer sincere and heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Natalia Fileva. Her premature death was an irreplaceable loss for the entire aerospace industry of the country.

The launch vehicle with cargo transport vehicle Progress MS-11 has been installed on the launch pad
April 1, 2019

Today, on April 1 launch vehicle Soyuz 2.1a with cargo transport vehicle (CTV) Progress MS-11 was rolled out from the assembly and test facility and erected on launch pad No. 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The L-2 days processing activities began.
The launch teams of RSC Energia specialists and other enterprises of Roscosmos are performing prelaunch processing operations at the launch site. Prelaunch tests of the rocket and space complex systems and assemblies are being conducted, the onboard hardware and the ground equipment interface is being checked out.

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