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Author of Russia in Space; journalist, illustrator. Clients: Popular Mechanics, Aviation Week, Air & Space Smithsonian, Aerospace America & others.

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Anatoly Zak
9 months
Indian Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft completes soft landing on the surface of the Moon:
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Speaking of flame trenches for rockets, here is my (previously unpublished) view of the Energia test and launch stand at Site 250 in Baikonur. There are some humans for scale. Context:
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Another remarkable advantage of the Indian space program over the Russian one, along with better technology, international integration and openness, is visible presence of women, who are used almost exclusively as decorations by Russians:
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Dr. Tanya Harrison
9 months
Seeing the sheer enthusiasm across the folks in Mission Control at @isro is bringing happy tears to my face! So, so happy for the entire team, bringing India into the very small list of countries that have successfully landed on the lunar surface! 🇮🇳 #Chandrayaan3
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3 years
With every launch some heroic @Roscosmos photographer is getting closer and closer to departing rocket:
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2 years
Russia is bewildered by unexplained cancellation of highly anticipated Putin's address tonight. Kremlin's spokesman is out of sight, propaganda channels removed the speech broadcast announcements. Rumors about imminent border closures are circulating like in some banana republic.
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3 years
HATCH OPENED: And here is the first scene of a sci-fi movie being shot on #ISS :
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3 years
Some good news: #Nauka module burned ALL the propellant available to its thrusters during its brawl after docking with #ISS , so there no chance it could happen again. DETAILS:
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3 years
UPDATE: #Nauka 's main engines (pictured in operation) are currently out of commission. Specialists are troubleshooting the issue and developing a backup rendezvous plan. The module has ~30 stable orbits at current altitude. EXCLUSIVE DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
4 years
Totally unprovoked and unauthorized five-booster version of #SpaceX ' Falcon (Super) Heavy rocket (just because I can :)
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1 year
...In the meantime, some kind of leak is possible from the Soyuz crew vehicle docked at ISS and providing "lifeboat" for the crew. Its impact on safety of the vehicle and the spacewalk is evaluated according to NASA:
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#ISS crew reports some flashes on #ISS from newly arrived #Nauka module, indicating some inadvertent thrusters firings (or propellant leaks)... The crew is advised to close windows...
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#Nauka 's missing thermal blankets were not simply forgotten during the installation, but they had not even been manufactured! FIND OUT WHY (and support the practically only surviving independent publication on the Russian space) ->
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2 years
A classified payload, delivered into orbit in the first launch of the Angara-1 rocket last month, appears to be inactive and will fall back to Earth without maneuvers:
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Anatoly Zak
5 years
WE HAVE A WINNER! #Roscosmos finally pics its future Moon rocket architecture, lock in payload mass. Details inside:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#Nauka update: Mission control just programmed the module to conduct first test engine firing. The planned orbit correction to follow, if everything works as planned. DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
...And after nearly half a century of waiting, finally, a clear visual of the legendary Almaz space cannon (left), along with my circa 2016 virtual recreation. FULL STORY:
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3 years
According to my sources, @Roscosmos tried to convince China to increase orbital inclination of its station (at very little cost), so that #Russia could add its modules and sent transport ships, but China refused. DETAILS:
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Some incredible (and possibly first) in-flight views of the Soyuz first-stage separation from a vantage point of a side booster: Stage I reference:
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2 years
In my humble opinion, nothing @Rogozin says at this point has any real approved policy or rational behind it, but @NASA should be ready for the worst-case scenario, where @Roscosmos stops providing propellant and orbit corrections to the #ISS .
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Anatoly Zak
1 year
Perhaps, it is a good time to quote myself:
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Anatoly Zak
1 year
In Russian space industry, the excuse "a meteor caused my spacecraft failure" (in this case, the Soyuz coolant leak) is one step away from "my dog eat my homework"...
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Another view of the Tselina spacecraft platform, destroyed in the latest anti-satellite test, with a human for scale:
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
Head of Russian meteorological service says Europe is "delaying" supply of data from its meteo satellites, "trying to endanger Russia's civil aviation, but it forgets Russia has its own assets in orbit." My translation: Russian meteo satellites are inadequate.
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Anatoly Zak
9 months
Luna-Glob ( #Luna25 ) mission ends with a crash into the lunar surface, Roskosmos confirms. The conclusion is made after unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the spacecraft:
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1 year
In Russian space industry, the excuse "a meteor caused my spacecraft failure" (in this case, the Soyuz coolant leak) is one step away from "my dog eat my homework"...
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
BREAKING: Newly launched Nauka module experiences a number of technical problems after successfully reaching orbit. EXCLUSIVE DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
BREAKING: Roscosmos plans (potentially, make-or-brake) test of the Kurs-A rendezvous system aboard #Nauka module as early as tomorrow. DETAILS, UPDATES:
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
Rogozin says that Roskosmos will not put its cosmonauts on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, even in case of striking a deal with @NASA on crossover flights to #ISS .
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#Nauka update: According to a source, a potentially mission-saving firing of DKS engines (pictured by me) was scheduled between 21:00 and 21:30 Moscow (2-2:30 p.m. EDT) or half an hour from now, if this info is correct. CONTEXT:
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
Another #ISS orbit correction is planned for January 12 using engines aboard Progress MS-18 cargo ship:
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1 year
FINAL DECISION: #Soyuz MS-22 to land empty, Soyuz MS-23 to launch unmanned to recover stranded crew from #ISS :
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
A mad tyrant with a finger on a nuclear button, unchecked power and imperial ambitions is bombing cities in Ukraine. It is time for Russian people to rise up, as we did in 1991, and wipe out this barbaric menace from the face of the earth or be complicit. #StandWithUkraine
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#Nauka update: Mission control plans new corrections of the module's orbit today to reduce a potentially fatal orbital plane drift, works to bring main engines back online... so here's my newly minted & hopeful pic of Nauka approaching #ISS . DETAILS:
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3 years
"It is like disarming a grenade": one expert about planning for deactivation of Nauka's compromised propulsion system after docking with #ISS . DETAILS, UPDATES:
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2 years
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a hero of Russia, criticizes the Russian invasion of #Ukraine (likely placing himself into a group of people who Putin and Rogozin want to "cleanse" from the society:
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Scott Kelly
2 years
Геннадий Падалка - воплощение героизма. Я с полным правом могу утверждать это, поскольку он был моим командиром на борту Международной космической станции в течение 6 месяцев. Padalka personifies the word, “hero.” I know, he was my commander on the ISS.
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2 years
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announces the 2022-2031 period a "decade of science and technologies in Russia." My comment: if he stays in power that long, there will be little left of science and technologies in Russia.
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
HUGE DAY for the Russian space program: Prichal module is on track for docking with #ISS in less than 4.5 hours (fingers crossed!), so here is our depiction of the historic event along with updates and more:
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2 years
Interesting: if this was sheered by wind on the ground, how was it certified to go through MaxQ:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Sources: Cosmonauts aboard the #ISS ' Russian Segment just completed drilling holes (!) around the first crack in the effort to stop its spread. The sealing of the air leak comes next. Keeping fingers crossed! UPDATES:
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2 years
My encounter with a full-scale #JWST demo at Le Bourget in... 2005 (it looks like there was a quite a bit of detailing done since then):
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3 years
It is less than 24 hours for (almost) no-margin-for-error approach and docking of the 20-ton #Nauka module with the #ISS . DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
5 years
Don't remember ever seeing that kind shot of the #Soyuz launch:
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1 year
Roskosmos and Arianespace are discussing a potential deal to return a #Soyuz rocket stuck in French Guiana in exchange for Western satellites held by Russia. FULL STORY:
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3 years
I hear, #Roscosmos and #NASA are close to a deal to put Russian cosmonauts on Dragon & Starliner commercial vehicles and US astronauts on #Soyuz ships heading to #ISS . DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
In case anybody was wondering, the docking of #Nauka module with the #ISS is still planned for July 29:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
UPDATE: First orbit-correction maneuver of the #Nauka module this afternoon had been cancelled to give ground controllers time to deal with a potential propulsion issue ->
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Anatoly Zak
4 years
...On another hand, a Soviet rocket propulsion giant Valentin Glushko is attributed a saying: "Even a broomstick will fly if you attach a (good) rocket engine to it" @elonmusk , #SpaceX :
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
I hear that @NASA is indeed considering switching the return to Earth of its #ISS astronaut Mark Vande Hei from Russian #Soyuz to an American vehicle. DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
...And the latest visuals of #Russia nuclear-electric space dreadnought emerge at a military trade show... but its mission described as delivering scientific instruments to the Moon and planets. MORE PICS, CONTEXT:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Just couldn't resist: #berniesmittens
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#Nauka 's test maneuver completed, the actual orbit correction was scheduled around now...
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3 years
#Nauka update: Mission control just programmed the module to conduct first test engine firing. The planned orbit correction to follow, if everything works as planned. DETAILS:
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3 years
Pirs module, driven by Progress MS-16 cargo ship, undocks from the #ISS , clearing the way for the arrival of the #Nauka module on July 29:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Putin plans to unveil new missiles shaped like classic American cars to make Americans pay attention to new Russian weapons:
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2 years
@Roscosmos official web site appears to be down...
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2 years
A HERO: A lonely protester in #Russia against invasion of #Ukraine . We can't even begin to imagine what kind of bravery and moral compass it takes to do this in the midst of blood-thirsty war mongering, brainwashing and repression from #Putin 's criminal regime:
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Anatoly Zak
1 year
...and of course, the biggest overkill ever: flame trench under Gagarin's pad. Context:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
#ISS crew had opened hatches into the #Nauka module and taking air samples in its interior!
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
I can anticipate a couple of questions:
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NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei is returning to Earth soon after spending a record-breaking 355 consecutive days on the space station. Before he comes home, he’s taking the time to answer YOUR questions! Use #AskNASA to ask @Astro_Sabot about his mission, and he may answer on video
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov died today at age 93. He was a veteran of three space missions aboard Soyuz-4, Soyuz-8 and Soyuz-10 spacecraft:
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Russian engineers jokingly called #Nauka Multi-Purpose Laboratory Module, MLM "the Multi-suffering Laboratory Module," according to the ISS flight director Vladimir Soloviev.
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2 years
SAINTS AND EXECUTIONERS: Russian #ISS Segment is turned into a bizarre display mixing religious icons, communist symbols and #Roscosmos ' endorsement of the carnage in Ukraine:
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The Kremlin now confirms that the former Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov replaced Dmitry Rogozin as the head of @Roscosmos :
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3 years
#Nauka module docks at #ISS expanding the Russian Segment of the station for the first time in a decade ("That was not an easy docking!":
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A newly surfaced document reveals Soviet plans for public announcements in case if the first launch of the N1 Moon rocket succeeded in 1969! FULL STORY:
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2 years
It is 115th birthday of Sergei Korolev, a multi-tasking founder of the Soviet space program:
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2 years
Angara's ill-fated Persei space tug to fall back to Earth tomorrow (yes, this is how it looks, seriously!) Its ~18 tons of propellants were likely drained, so around 3.5 tons of metal remain to plunge through the atmosphere. UPDATES in the morning:
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2 years
#Soyuz MS-20 made it to the pad... (under usual foxy supervision):
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2 years
In light of today's events, I would propose @NASA : – Expel @Roscosmos from #ISS as soon as technically possible (no money spared); – Put #Ukraine 's pilot on the first Artemis crew. They bleed and die for all freedom-loving people, including in #Russia :
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Anatoly Zak
4 years
UNUSED PICS: My eye-to-eye with Buran (yes, that's the one that actually flew in 1988 and destroyed in 2002). Remember doing a rather precarious climb to get that photo. CONTEXT:
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3 years
Sources: Air leak aboard #ISS requires extra air supplies, imposes limitations on the use of Zvezda's aft port by visiting vehicles. New plan to combat the leak is in the works. Details/visual:
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Anatoly Zak
9 months
According to Zakryty Kosmos TG channel (unofficial): Luna-Glob ( #Luna25 ) broke communications with ground control during today's orbit correction but Roskosmos continues its attempts to contact the spacecraft...
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Numerous particles are also seen outside the station indicating either major propellant leak or gas vent...
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Anatoly Zak
6 years
...And here is the reliable old lifeboat, a.k.a. Descent Module of #SoyuzMS10 after completing its job of saving lives of two space travelers:
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Anatoly Zak
2 years
After three near-misses, China will try again to hit a major population center with an uncontrolled rocket body:
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Eric Berger
2 years
New prediction from The Aerospace Corporation just dropped. Now expecting Long March 5B reentry earlier on Friday, at 12:24 UTC ± 4 hours
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3 years
Russian specialists are preparing for a complex choreography of adding yet another piece to the Russian #ISS Segment, just 4 months after the docking of the #Nauka module. DETAILS:
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Anatoly Zak
11 months
Just finished updated master image of the Angara rocket family HOME PAGE:
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2 years
Prichal module is reported on track for liftoff to #ISS tomorrow. My depiction of the #Soyuz /space tug/module stack for the new mission home page:
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Anatoly Zak
5 years
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The largest explosion in space exploration history rocks Tyuratam, as the Soviet N1 Moon rocket collapses back to its launch pad shortly after liftoff. FULL STORY:
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2 years
Our friendly reminder that tomorrow is Rogozin's ultimatum deadline for lifting western sanctions from Roskosmos entities, unless partners want something bad happen to the #ISS !
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4 years
Happy Sputnik Day everybody! HISTORY, PHOTOS, ILLUSTRATIONS:
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3 years
Our short illustrated overview of #Soyuz landing process:
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3 years
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The USSR launches the 1st Salyut space station, which started the most enduring effort in human space flight for the next half a century. PART 1 of our illustrated history:
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6 years
Here is a detailed recap of today's #SoyuzMS10 launch failure and successful crew escape! WARNING: rocket science/work in progress/revisit often ->
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Anatoly Zak
3 years
Sometimes, problem is hidden in plain sight:
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Anatoly Zak
5 years
Wow, not a CG! The actual in-orbit view of ion engines firing aboard the Russian-built EgyptSat-A spy satellite:
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3 years
#Roscosmos also says that post-maneuver orbit parameters match the calculated predictions (without mentioning what they are... at this point)
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3 years
@Roscosmos head @Rogozin says that #Nauka module conducted a two-impulse maneuver with its (main) DKS-1 engine (pictured) starting at 17:20:47 and 17:54:20 Moscow Time (10:20, 10:54 a.m. EDT):
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2 years
I guess popular argument "space cooperation helps cooperation on earth," is undergoing a major stress test right now...
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3 years
ISS robotic arm inspects nadir (Earth-facing) docking port on the Zvezda service module, which was vacated by Pirs module earlier today and intended for the arriving #Nauka module. These images should clear it for docking on Thursday. DETAILS:
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3 years
Investigation into the yesterday's wild ride aboard the #ISS blames #Nauka 's software. DETAILS, UPDATES:
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2 years
It is clear now that the amount of damage to the Russian space program will depend directly on the longevity of the current regime in Kremlin. Longer Putin stays in power, the more severe and irreversible will be the degradation of the space industry in the country.
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The Prichal Node Module (undergoing final preps for launch to #ISS ) is the closest Russian engineers got to implementing the plug-in-play concept in space station design. IN-DEPTH:
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3 years
Very strange custom designs on a #Soyuz rocket launching movie crew tomorrow. I hope this is not a bar chart representing annual @Roscosmos budget in the past few years:
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Ukraine's An-225 Mriya aircraft, former carrier of the Soviet Buran orbiter, lands through the fog in Poland yesterday:
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Awesome landing through the fog: @AntonovCompany An-225 Mriya arriving in Rzeszow (RZE), Poland. Video: Maciej Skop. @AirlinesAntonov
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3 years
Waking up to the news that the historic Buran orbiter was vandalized inside the MZK building in Baikonur at Site 112:
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Рустем Адагамов
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Искренне пожелаю, чтобы у тех мудаков, кто это сделал, руки отсохли нахуй.
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Space launches in the 21st century: meteoric rise of the United States, boom in China, slow but steady decline in Russia: MORE:
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2 years
#Russia ’s new-generation #Angara rocket is targeting liftoff tomorrow. Mission history, details, visuals (subscription):
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3 years
#Russia 's Angara-5 rocket lifts off from Plesetsk on its 2nd test flight in six years. MISSION HISTORY:
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2 years
I hear Roskosmos' boss Rogozin tells Kremlin's media he can jump-start Ukrainian rocket industry (presumably, after Russian hordes occupy the country). Comment: the same way he "jump-started" Sea Launch rusting away in the Russian Far East.
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3 years
In addition to all its capabilities, the #Nauka module provided a whole new perspective (literally) on the International Space Station, #ISS :
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Oleg Novitskiy
3 years
A view of the International @Space_Station that is a bit unusual and new for us. Hello everyone from the #Nauka module! We continue to gradually unload it and are getting ready for spacewalks scheduled for September 2 and 8 to prepare our new module from the outside.
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3 years
This #ISS #Exp66 logo certainly wins my design competition:
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Russian plans for building new station instead of separating from #ISS , depends on converting the Science and Power Module, NEM, into the core of the future station. However, this strategy poses a number of major technical and financial obstacles. DETAILS:
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