European Space Agency considers landing sites for ExoMars mission

(The ExoMars Rover – Photo Credit: ESA/RT)

The European Space Agency are currently considering four possible landing sites for its ExoMars mission: an endeavour with Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, which will deploy a rover onto the surface of Mars to search for evidence of past or present Martian life.

Russian Proton rocket blasts off on first launch since May failure

(Photo Credit: Roscosmos)

Russia’s heavy-lift Proton rocket has successfully returned to flight and placed a Russian military satellite into geostationary orbit just four months after an explosive failure.

NASA Television to broadcast upcoming Russian spacewalk

(Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev working on the station during their previous spacewalk – Photo Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA)

Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside of the International Space Station on Monday 18th August for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. The 181st Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) in support of space station assembly and maintenance will be shown on NASA TV, with coverage set to begin at 1:30 p.m. GMT (9:30 a.m. EDT).

Russia regains control of orbiting satellite filled with geckos and insects

(The launch of the vehicle – Photo Credit: Roscosmos)

Three days ago, Russia lost control of an experimental satellite currently in low-Earth orbit. The vehicle, filled with geckos, fruit flies and mushrooms, stopped responding to commands and engineers considered that the craft could plummet to Earth. However, Roscosmos now believe they have re-established contact and control of the vehicle.