Roscosmos
Space agency of Russia
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| 2025 | Planned maiden flight of the Irtysh (Soyuz-5) rocket, a crewed and uncrewed launch vehicle by RTKs Progress. |
| February 2025 | Dmitry Bakanov becomes the director of Roscosmos. |
| 2024 | Roscosmos relocates its headquarters to the new National Space Center in the Moscow district of Fili. |
| February 2024 | At the 2023 AGM, Borisov reveals Roscosmos has lost 180 billion rubles in export revenues, primarily from engine sales and launch services, due to Western responses to the Ukraine invasion. The agency has lost 90% of its launch service contracts. |
| 2023 | Luna 25 lunar mission was launched but ultimately crashed onto the moon's surface, marking an unsuccessful attempt in Roscosmos' Luna-Glob program. |
| 2023 | Continued resupply missions to the International Space Station despite geopolitical tensions. |
| October 2023 | Borisov announces the need for 150 billion rubles to build a Russian space station, projected to be completed in 2032 with a total investment of 609 billion rubles. |
| June 2023 | Roscosmos conducts a recruitment campaign for volunteers for the Uran Battalion, a militia supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Valeri Polyakov passed away, marking the end of an era for Soviet and Russian cosmonauts. |
| July 2022 | Yury Borisov becomes the director of Roscosmos. |
| May 2 2022 | Rogozin announces Roscosmos will terminate its involvement in the International Space Station (ISS) with 12 months' notice. |
| March 25 2022 | Rogozin declares that cooperation with Europe is impossible after sanctions related to the Ukraine war. |
| March 3 2022 | Roscosmos announces cessation of cooperation on scientific experiments at the Spacelab. |
| February 24 2022 | Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Roscosmos's activities begin to be significantly impacted, launching nine rockets throughout the year. |
| 2021 | Kiviryan Harutyunovich, Alexander Kolyabin, and Sergey Teteryatnikov added to the corps, currently awaiting space mission assignments. |
| December 2021 | The Russian Government confirmed the agreement with Roscosmos for developing next-generation space systems, with the document originally provided in July 2020. |
| October 2021 | Roscosmos temporarily halted rocket engine tests in Voronezh to deliver 33 tons of oxygen to local medical centers as part of COVID-19 pandemic aid. |
| September 2021 | Roscosmos announced financial losses of 25 billion roubles in revenue and 1 billion roubles in net income for 2020, attributed to reduced foreign contracts and increased expenses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 2021 | Nauka module was finally attached to the International Space Station after multiple delays since its initially planned 2007 launch. |
| June 2021 | Rogozin complained that sanctions related to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea were negatively impacting Roscosmos. |
| April 2021 | Roscosmos announced its departure from the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2024 and plans to construct a new Russian Orbital Service Station starting in 2025. |
| March 2021 | Roscosmos signed a memorandum with China National Space Administration to cooperatively construct the International Lunar Research Station. |
| 2020 | Roscosmos under Rogozin withdrew from the Lunar Gateway project, reneging on a previous agreement signed with NASA in September 2017. |
| 2019 | Gennadi Manakov passed away |
| 2019 | Spektr RG (Roentgen Gamma) science mission was launched, with one of two telescopes still operational. |
| February 22 2019 | Roscosmos announces the construction of its new headquarters, the National Space Centre in Moscow. |
| 2018 | New cosmonauts selected, including Konstantin Borisov, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexander Grebenkin, and Kirill Peskov. |
| 2018 | Scheduled completion date for the Vostochny Cosmodrome construction project. |
| 2018 | Russia agreed to assist in completing the Suffa Space Observatory project in Uzbekistan, reviving the long-dormant astronomical facility. |
| 2018 | Russian President Vladimir Putin called for drastic improvement in the quality and reliability of space and launch vehicles to preserve Russia's leadership in space. |
| November 2018 | Alexei Kudrin, head of Russian financial audit agency, criticized Roscosmos for having the highest losses due to irrational spending and corruption, leading to the termination of Igor Komarov's leadership in May 2018. |
| 2016 | First rocket launched at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, marking a significant milestone in Russia's space infrastructure development. |
| 2016 | Gonets communication satellite system reaches a constellation of 13 satellites, comprising 12 Gonets-M and 1 Gonets-D1 satellites in low Earth orbit. |
| 2016 | The state agency Roscosmos was dissolved, and the Roscosmos brand was moved to the state corporation that was originally created in 2013 as the United Rocket and Space Corporation. |
| 2015 | Boris Morukov passed away |
| 2015 | Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-16M, further expanding his spaceflight record. |
| 2015 | Russian Space Forces formed through the merger of space components from the Russian Air Force and Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO). |
| 2015 | Planned launch of two 'Obzor-R' Remote Sensing of the Earth satellites with AESA radar and four 'Obzor-O' spacecraft to capture Earth's surface in normal and infrared light with a 80 km swath and 10-meter resolution. |
| 2015 | Elektro P weather satellite was launched. |
| 2015 | Merger of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) with the United Rocket and Space Corporation, re-nationalizing Russia's space industry. |
| 2014 | Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-14 and Soyuz TMA-04M, continuing his significant contributions to space exploration. |
| 2014 | Yelena Serova flew on Soyuz TMA-14M mission during the Russian Federation period. |
| December 23 2014 | First launch of the Angara A5 rocket, a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by Khrunichev. |
| July 19 2014 | Roscosmos launched the Foton-M4 satellite carrying five geckos (four females and one male) as part of the Gecko-F4 research program to study the effects of weightlessness on gecko reproduction and development. Mission control lost contact with the spacecraft shortly after it exited the atmosphere. |
| July 9 2014 | Maiden flight of the Angara 1.2 rocket by Khrunichev, marking a new development in Russian rocket technology. |
| 2013 | Resumed Bion missions with the Bion-M mission. |
| December 28 2013 | First launch of the Soyuz-2.1v rocket, a smaller variant in the Soyuz rocket family. |
| October 2013 | Detailed government plans were released calling for re-nationalization of the space industry, including creating a unified command structure and potentially leading to significant workforce reductions. |
| August 2013 | The United Rocket and Space Corporation was formed as a joint-stock corporation by the Russian government to consolidate the space sector. |
| July 2013 | A Proton M launch failure triggered a major reorganization of the Russian space industry, prompting government intervention. |
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