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      NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is home after a year in space

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 27 September, 2023 - 19:48

    NASA astronaut Frank Rubio smiles and waves moments after arriving back on Earth to wrap up more than a year in orbit.

    Enlarge / NASA astronaut Frank Rubio smiles and waves moments after arriving back on Earth to wrap up more than a year in orbit. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls )

    NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two Russian crewmates parachuted to a landing on the remote steppe of Kazakhstan Wednesday, capping a 371-day mission at the International Space Station, the longest single spaceflight ever undertaken by an American.

    It was also the third-longest mission off the planet in the history of human spaceflight, eclipsed only by two Russian cosmonauts who lived on the Mir space station in the 1990s.

    Rubio, a US Army lieutenant colonel who grew up in El Salvador and Miami, was supposed to spend about six months in low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station. He launched September 21 of last year on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitri Petelin.

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      La sonde Luna-25 de la Russie s’est crashée sur la Lune

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Sunday, 20 August, 2023 - 10:41

    La Russie a raté son arrivée sur la Lune. Les communications avec la mission Luna-25, censée se poser au pôle sud de l'astre, ont été rompues. La sonde s'est écrasée sur la Lune, a confirmé Roscosmos. [Lire la suite]

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      Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 11 August, 2023 - 02:28

    Fire from the engines of a Russian Soyuz rocket as it lifted off with the Luna 25 spacecraft heading for the Moon.

    Enlarge / Fire from the engines of a Russian Soyuz rocket as it lifted off with the Luna 25 spacecraft heading for the Moon. (credit: Roscosmos )

    Russia's space agency successfully launched a robotic spacecraft Thursday on a journey to the Moon, the country's first lunar explorer since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976.

    The Luna 25 mission lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, located in Russia's Far East, at 7:10 p.m. EDT (23:10 UTC). Heading east, a Soyuz-2.1b rocket propelled Luna 25 through an overcast cloud deck and into the stratosphere, then shed its four first stage boosters about two minutes into the flight. A core stage engine fired a few minutes longer, and the Soyuz rocket jettisoned its payload shroud.

    A third stage engine fired next, then gave way to a Fregat upper stage to place Luna 25 into an orbit around Earth. The Fregat engine fired a second time to send the nearly 4,000-pound (1.8-metric ton) lunar probe on a roughly five-day trip toward the Moon. Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, declared the launch a success less than 90 minutes after liftoff, shortly after the Luna 25 spacecraft separated from the Fregat upper stage.

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      La Russie compte bien revenir sur la Lune après 50 ans d’absence

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 9 August, 2023 - 09:57

    Presque 50 ans après une dernière mission lunaire, la Russie se relance à la conquête du satellite de la Terre. L'atterrisseur Luna-25 doit décoller le 11 août 2023, dans un contexte particulier. [Lire la suite]

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      47 ans après, la Russie reprend le chemin de la Lune

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 8 August, 2023 - 16:00

    template-jdg-158x105.jpg Une maquette de l'alunisseur de la mission Luna 25 et une photo d'un Soyouz (à g.) au cosmodrome de Vostochny (à d.)

    Pour la première fois depuis près d'un demi-siècle, Roscosmos va tenter de poser un nouvel engin à la surface de la Lune. Certains experts y voient une course avec Chandrayaan-3, la sonde indienne qui devrait arriver sur place à la même période.

    47 ans après, la Russie reprend le chemin de la Lune

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      It appears that Roscosmos really is recruiting soldiers for the Ukraine War

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 20 June, 2023 - 13:10

    Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev, and Sergey Korsakov pose with a flag of the Luhansk People's Republic on the International Space Station.

    Enlarge / Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev, and Sergey Korsakov pose with a flag of the Luhansk People's Republic on the International Space Station. (credit: Roscosmos)

    A new report in the Financial Times appears to confirm that the main Russian space corporation, Roscosmos, is recruiting and training a militia to join the country's war effort against Ukraine.

    The "Uran" battalion, which translates to Uranus, is to be made up of employees of Roscosmos, as well as those from its dozens of state-owned subsidiaries in the aerospace business. Recruits will receive a 100,000 ruble ($1,200) sign-up bonus, and a monthly frontline duty salary of 270,000 rubles, according to the report. This is far above the wages paid to most employees of Roscosmos.

    Among the recruitment efforts are glossy posters, showing soldiers Photoshopped next to space vehicles, and videos that aggrandize participation in the war. In one of these advertisements, the announcer states, "State corporation Roscosmos calls on you to join the Uran volunteer battalion, where you will be trained for victory in this great war." The report indicates that these recruitment videos are playing in the facilities of some Roscosmos entities, where there are 170,000 employees spread across Russia.

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      La Russie prolonge sa participation à l’ISS malgré les tensions avec l’Occident

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 April, 2023 - 06:32

    La Russie a finalement annoncé l'extension de sa participation à l'ISS jusqu'en 2028. La désorbitation de la Station spatiale internationale est actuellement envisagée aux alentours de 2030. [Lire la suite]

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      Suivez le ballet autour de l’ISS avec la relocalisation d’un vaisseau spatial

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 6 April, 2023 - 08:08

    capsule navette Soyouz

    Une manœuvre est organisée ce jeudi matin autour de l'ISS. Objectif : déplacer un vaisseau pour libérer un port d'amarrage pour un prochain véhicule spatial. [Lire la suite]

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      Il y a trop de vaisseaux autour de l’ISS, alors il faut en déplacer un pour faire de la place

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 - 09:00

    capsule navette Soyouz

    Il va y avoir un ballet spatial ponctuel autour de l'ISS le 6 avril. À cette date, un vaisseau russe, le Soyouz MS-23, va se séparer de la station spatiale et se relocaliser ailleurs. Objectif ? Libérer un emplacement pour l'arrivée d'un autre véhicule. [Lire la suite]

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