Timeline of Roscosmos
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| 1992 | February 25 | The Russian Space Agency is established. Yuri Koptev becomes the agency's first director.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2004 | March | Director Yuri Koptev is replaced by Anatoly Perminov.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2006 | The budget for 2006 is of 25 billion rubles (about 900 million USD), a 33% increase from the 2005 budget.<w:Roscosmos> | ||
| 2009 | January | The Koronas Foton is launched as a science mission.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2011 | January | New weather satellite Elektro L is launched.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2011 | July | Spektr R (RadioAstron) is launched.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2013 | January | Roscosmos announces process of designing and building a replacement for its ageing Soyuz rocket and space capsule system, with the aim of putting it into operation by 2020. The budget for the new rocket and capsule is set at 2.1 trillion rubles (US$69 billion). Roscosmos has plans to visit Mars in a joint mission with the European Space Agency.[1][2][3] | |
| 2013 | March 16 | NASA astronaut Kevin A. Ford, together with Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin of Roscosmos, return safely to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-06M capsule which landed on the Kazakhstan steppe, after a five-month mission in the International Space Station.[4][5][6][7] | |
| 2013 | April 19 | Roscosmos launches its Bion-M1 space capsule into orbit packed with mice, geckos, gerbils, snails and fish, to begin a month-long experiment to study how space travel affects living creatures. Bion-M1 is Russia's first mission dedicated to launching animals into space in 17 years.[8][9] | |
| 2014 | May | Roscosmos rocket carrying its most advanced communication satellite to date falls back to Earth 545 seconds after it took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that Moscow leases in Kazakhstan. The US$205-million satellite—built by Airbus Group's Astrium corporation—was meant to provide Internet access to remote Russian regions with poor access to communication.[10][11][12][13][14][15] | |
| 2015 | The Russian government merges Roscosmos with the United Rocket and Space Corporation, the renationalized Russian space industry, to create Roscosmos State Corporation.<w:Roscosmos> | ||
| 2015 | Spektr UV (Ultra Violet, 2016) is launched.<w:Roscosmos> | ||
| 2015 | Elektro P is launched.<w:Roscosmos> | ||
| 2015 | January | Igor Komarov becomes Director.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2015 | December 28 | The Corporation is established on the basis of the now-defunct Federal Space Agency. Roscosmos was previously known as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency.<w:Roscosmos> | |
| 2009 | The federal space budget for the year stands at about 82 billion rubles ($2.4 billion).<w:Roscosmos> | ||
| 2011 | The government spends 115 billion rubles ($3.8 bln) in the national space programs.<w:Roscosmos> |
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- ↑ "RUSSIAN SOYUZ SPACECRAFT REPLACEMENT TO FLY IN 2020". wired.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Roscosmos Outlines Plans for GLONASS Program through 2020". insidegnss.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s". popsci.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Soyuz TMA-06M returns from space station with US-Russian crew". collectspace.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Space crew returns to Earth from ISS". phys.org. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan". adioaustralia.net.au. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Soyuz TMA-06M safely returns crew to Earth". nasaspaceflight.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ Kramer, Miriam. "Russia Launches Animals Into Space on One-Month Journey". space.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ CLARK, STEPHEN. "Russian spacecraft launched with cosmic cache of critters". spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "RUSSIAN ROCKET FAILURE CASTS PALL ON EUROPEAN MARS MISSIONS". sen.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Russian rocket falls back to Earth with super satellite". hurriyetdailynews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Russian rocket falls back to Earth". samaa.tv. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Russian Rocket Carrying Advanced Satellite Crashes After Launch: Reports". space.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Proton-M rocket carrying Russia's most advanced satellite crashes". rt.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Russian Proton rocket falls back to Earth with super satellite (Update)". phys.org. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
