Descent Module of the Bion-M2 satellite landed successfully today in the Orenburg Region. Updates: russianspaceweb.com/bion-m2.html...

Roskosmos confirms planned return to Earth tomorrow of the Bion-M2 satellite with live organisms onboard after a nearly month-long scientific mission. Details, updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/bion-m2.html...

Major management shakeup at Roskosmos started with the ouster of its Director General in February continues this month with top personnel replacements including the alleged firing of Director General at NPO Avtomatiki, a leading avionics producer. DETAILS www.russianspaceweb.com/roskosmos.ht...

Progress MS-32 cargo ship docks at ISS, delivering ~2.5 tons of supplies for Expedition 73. Updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-...

Progress MS-32 is on track for docking with ISS in less than an hour. Watch it live here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...

A Soyuz rocket launched a fresh GLONASS navigation satellite and Mozhaets-6 experimental spacecraft from Plesetsk. DETAILS, UPDATES: www.russianspaceweb.com/glonass-k-18...

Progress MS-32 cargo ship lifts off from Baikonur on a Soyuz-2-1a rocket. Details, updates are on the site

Progress MS-32 cargo ship to launch today (details, updates): www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-...

Bion-M2 mission gets a rare official update: www.russianspaceweb.com/bion-m2.html...

RKK Energia, Russia's prime contractor in human space flight, publicly admits that the company is in dire financial straits, with debt eating its budget, demotivated staff and obsolete processes. Only a miracle left to save it, according to Energia's Director General.

Angara-1 rocket reported delivering multiple military satellites following its launch from Plesetsk today. Mission details, updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/angara1-flig...

A Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifts off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the Bion-M2 biological satellite. Updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/bion-m2.html

Soyuz rocket to launch the Bion-M2 life-science satellite in couple of hours. MISSION DETAILS, UPDATES: www.russianspaceweb.com/bion-m2.html

A Soyuz-2-1b rocket with a Bion-M life-science experiments is fully assembled and ready for a rollout to the launch pad for an unusually short 24-hour countdown toward liftoff tomorrow, due to perishable biological payloads onboard: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#bion

Not much was known about the new engine of the PTK Orel crew vehicle, but we recently got detailed specs and exclusive visuals (subscription): www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

Progress MS-30 cargo ship reported conducting another ISS orbit correction today (the 6th by my calculations): www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-...

Roskosmos says its teams completed fueling of the Bion-M2 satellite scheduled to launch on a life-science research mission on August 20: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#bion

Russian robotic lunar missions are postponed... from nearly never to almost definitely never. CONTEXT: www.russianspaceweb.com/luna_resurs_...

MISSING MOON RACE HISTORY: For the first time, the 1971 concept for the Soviet response to the Apollo Moon landing is described and illustrated! Please consider subscribing: www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

Зятя Мижуева вывели из зала, а с Ноздревым решили повременить:

Russian cosmonaut Talgat Musabaev died at age 74. I once had a chance to wave good bye to him (top) and his crew during boarding of a Soyuz spacecraft on launch pad in Baikonur: russianspaceweb.com/iss_soyuztm3...

Crew Dragon lifts off from Florida with 4 ISS crew members after a rare "maintenance" visit to the US by a Roskosmos boss, though with no prospects for new deals, while the US-Russian space cooperation is to end after ISS deorbiting circa 2031: www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_chronolo...

Roskosmos plans to deliberately crash Angara-5M rocket to test crew escape for new-generation transport. Full story, exclusive details (subscription): www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

On 1977 Dec 21, the USSR carried out an antisatellite test with the Kosmos-970 interceptor, leaving debris in a 65 deg inclination with orbit heights from 400 to 1400 km. About 60 debris objects were cataloged over the following decade, mostly still in orbit. (1/2)

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Soyuz-18 crew returns to Earth with a Soviet long-duration record. FULL STORY: www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz18.html

Soyuz to launch Ionosfera-M3/4 satellites, Iranian payload and multiple cubesats in a few hours. Mission details, updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/ionosfera-3-...

A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket was rolled out to launch pad at Vostochny spaceport. It is scheduled to carry a pair of Ionosfera science spacecraft along with 18 secondary payloads including an Iranian satellite on Friday: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#io...

The Soyuz-Apollo project was like Olympics for the Soviet space program — so many renovations and additions were made across the industry in its anticipation and some are in use until this day. NEW ASTP HOME PAGE: www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-apollo...

Satellite observer Felix Schöfbänker made stunning ground-based images and animations of Russia's Pion-NKS military satellite, confirming its architecture: www.astrobin.com/28pg48/B/?fo... Mission page: www.russianspaceweb.com/pion.html

50 years ago today, Soviet and US spacecraft made a historic docking in space. For the anniversary, we start a series of articles incorporating little-known info from recently declassified Soviet documents, including details on extraordinary security measures in the project: www.russianspaceweb.com

Russian TV shows launch & landing infrastructure (renderings) for the methane-burning, partially reusable Amur-SPG rocket, promised as early as 2028:

Alleged Russian killer satellite and its carrier platform are predicted to make another pass near a secret US payload tomorrow: www.russianspaceweb.com/nivelir3.htm...

Liftoff: Progress MS-31, ISS mission 92P. Updates: www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-...

Progress MS-31 cargo ship to launch today DETAILS, UPDATES: www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-...

Soyuz-2-1a rocket with Progress MS-31 cargo ship was rolled out to the launch pad this morning in preparation for a re-supply launch to the ISS Thursday: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#pr...

Russian startup plans radar imager INSIDER CONTENT: www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

On 2025 Jun 26, a debris object was cataloged from Kosmos-2558. It appears to have separated around 1400 UTC at a low speed of around 10 km/hr. The event may be associated with the end of the satellite's mission in some way.

We finally got TLEs for the third object from the Kosmos-2589 launch. It's not the DTB drop tank as expected, but a second object in the Kosmos-2589 orbit, quite possibly a second payload (although could be just an optics cover). Seems to have sep from K2589 on Jun 20.

A crew with Indian, Polish and Hungarian astronauts is on its way to the ISS aboard the US Dragon spacecraft. Ironically, all three countries sent their first citizens into space aboard the Soviet Soyuz, but now avoid Russia as a pariah state: russianspaceweb.com/iss_chronolo...

Roskosmos reports start of irreversible operations with the Progress MS-31 cargo ship slated to resupply the International Space Station early next month: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#pr...

An Atlas-5 rocket, propelled by Russian-built RD-180 engine, lifts off from Cape Canaveral with a second batch of Kuiper Internet satellites. It is 91st launch for the US space industry in 2025: www.russianspaceweb.com/2025.html

The Angara-5 mission this week used a longer fairing to accommodate its military payload. Here is my reconstruction of the vehicle (center) compared to the original Angara-5 and its combo with a Persei stage. FULL STORY: www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5-flig...

A classified military payload reported separating from the upper stage of the Angara-5, completing the rocket's mission today. Updates: russianspaceweb.com/angara5-flig...

Angara-5 to carry its first real payload to the geostationary orbit for the first time. DETAILS, UPDATES: www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5-flig...

So far, I hear that the latest suspected air leak on the Russian ISS Segment might be limited to the (easily isolated) PrK chamber in the Zvezda Service Module (pictured):

As long expected, the situation with the air leak aboard the Russian Segment of the ISS appears to be deteriorating, gradually becoming the "weakest link" of the whole project:

Added exclusive info on the Transfer Section, PKhO, to our Soyuz-MS tech guide: internal drawings, description, ...work in progress for our subscribers: www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

Roskosmos reports flight-worthy RD-0124MS engine preparing for final tests this year in another milestone toward the introduction of the new-generation Soyuz-5 rocket. FULL STORY (subscription): www.russianspaceweb.com/insider-cont...

Roskosmos orders three Angara-5M rockets for ROS project FULL STORY: www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5m.html

NPO Lavochkin makes rare announcement on the completion of the Luna-27 lander drop tests (in mid May), but no confirmation of the planned launch date (supposed to be 2028): www.russianspaceweb.com/luna_resurs_...