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☆ Opinion: India’s moon landing shines an uncomfortable light on Russia’s failures
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Opinion Leroy Chiao | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The milestone marks a huge accomplishment for its nascent space program, which has made steady progress over the years. China also boasts a human spaceflight program with an operational space station, including crew and cargo transport spacecraft. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the International Space Station (ISS) partnership, the US, Europe, Japan and Canada also continue to move forward with space exploration. Instead of expanding, its space program has been in decline for several years. The lamentable state of Moscow’s space program is just the latest confirmation of that.

Persons: Leroy Chiao, Yuri Gagarin, John F, Vladimir Putin, Putin, —, Luna, Indranil Mukherjee, Artemis, Jeff Bezos, Sergei Krikalev, Dmitry Rogozin, Nick Hague, ” Organizations: NASA, Russian Soyuz, International, CNN, Leroy Chiao CNN, Sputnik, Republicans, Russian Luna, Getty, Space, SpaceX, Soviet Union, ISS, Expedition, Space Shuttle, Twitter, Facebook, Progress, Soyuz, Luna Locations: Russian, what’s, India, Delhi, Soviet Union, United States, Moscow, Russia, America, Ukraine, Asia, China, Mumbai, US, Europe, Japan, Canada, West, Soviet, Columbia

☆ Russia says it's snagged the intact parts of a Storm Shadow missile, and can now study the British-made munition that's been devastating its operations in Ukraine from long range
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russia said on Thursday that it's obtained intact parts of a downed Storm Shadow missile. "The Storm Shadow missile, shot down by Russian forces in the Zaporizhzhia region, was brought to Moscow for study," Russian state news agency TASS reported. Describing the missile as a "trophy," TASS wrote that Russian authorities had already received the Storm Shadow parts and are inspecting them. Rogozin said Ukraine shelled the area around the downed missile and sent troops to block Russian forces from securing the Storm Shadow parts, per TASS. "The two-day operation to evacuate the captured Storm Shadow has been successfully completed," read a caption for the Telegram post.

Persons: it's, —, Dmitry Rogozin, Rogozin, Storm Shadow, Ukraine —, Ben Wallace, Ursula von der Leyen, Elliot Napier Organizations: Storm Shadow, Service, Russia, Storm, TASS, Telegram, intel, UK Ministry of Defense, Russia's Ministry of Defense, European Commission, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense Locations: Russia, Russian, Zaporizhzhia, Moscow, British, Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ Putin says Russia's new Sarmat nuclear missiles soon ready for deployment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MOSCOW, June 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia's new generation of Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads, would soon be deployed for combat duty. In a speech to new graduates of military academies, Putin stressed the importance of Russia's "triad" of nuclear forces that can be launched from land, sea or air. "The most important task here is the development of the nuclear triad, which is a key guarantee of Russia's military security and global stability," he said. Putin has repeatedly said since the start of the Ukraine conflict that Russia is ready to use all means, including nuclear weapons, to defend its "territorial integrity". The new Sarmat missile is designed to carry out nuclear strikes on targets thousands of missiles away in the United States or Europe.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Sergei Shoigu, Dmitry Rogozin, Rogozin, Mark Trevelyan, Gareth Jones Organizations: Strategic Missile Forces, Defence, George's, Russia, Ukrainian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Europe, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Moscow, Soviet

☆ Elon Musk wants to have a cage match with his tech world nemesis, jiu-jitsu enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said he'd be up for fighting his tech world nemesis, jiu-jitsu lover Mark Zuckerberg. Elon Musk says he'd be up for settling his beef with Mark Zuckerberg in the ring. On Tuesday night, Musk took to Twitter to respond to unsubstantiated rumors that Meta might soon launch a rival to Musk's Twitter, called Threads. While we can only assume Musk's cage fight proposition is a joke, Musk and Zuckerberg have in the past traded words over their respective tech kingdoms. In the very, very slim chance that Musk and Zuckerberg were to meet in the cage, Musk would find a tough opponent in his tech world nemesis: Zuckerberg has been looking totally shredded lately.

Persons: Elon Musk, he'd, Mark Zuckerberg, Musk, Vladimir Putin, Musk's, Zuckerberg, Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov, Dmitry Rogozin . Organizations: Morning, Twitter, SpaceX, Facebook, Boring, Meta Locations: Ukraine, Redwood City , California, Russian

☆ OneWeb 'moves on' from Soyuz-stranded satellites as its network nears completion
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Dmitry Rogozin said at the time that his agency wanted OneWeb to provide guarantees that its satellites were not going to be used against Russia. But it has been unable to retrieve the satellites from their Soyuz launchsite at the Russia-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellites are worth a combined $50 million, OneWeb chief executive Neil Masterson said Tuesday. OneWeb, which manufactures at least two satellites per day, had another batch of 36 satellites ready for launch soon after cancelling Soyuz, Masterson said. Asked if Russia's custody of the commercially sensitive technology raises security or competitive concerns for OneWeb, Masterson said: "It's not a material problem."

☆ Russia's former deputy PM said he was injured by a shell blast in occupied Ukraine after his location was leaked
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Bethany Dawson | Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former Russian space chief said he was wounded by an exploding artillery shell in a Donetsk hotel. The former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said that he was wounded on his shoulder and needed surgery. FILE PHOTO: Russia's Roscosmos former space agency Director General Dmitry Rogozin looks on at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File PhotoWriting on Telegram, Rogozin suggested that his location had been "leaked," resulting in what he says was a "targeted attack." Rogozin now appears to lead a volunteer unit that supports Russia's proxy forces in eastern Ukraine, the BBC reported.

☆ Ukraine shelling attack injures two top pro-Russia officials in Donetsk - agencies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/PoolDec 21 (Reuters) - A former Russian deputy prime minister and a pro-Moscow official were injured when Ukrainian forces shelled the eastern city of Donetsk on Wednesday, Russian news agencies said. Donetsk, controlled by pro-Moscow troops, is in the industrial Donbas region, epicentre of recent bitter fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Also hurt was Vitaly Khotsenko, the head of government of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, his press secretary told Russian news agencies. The two men were injured when a hotel on the outskirts of Donetsk came under fire from high-precision weapons, aides told Russian agencies. Rogozin used to head Russia's space agency but was replaced in July.

☆ Former astronaut Scott Kelly says Russians have been 'brainwashed' over Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former astronaut Scott Kelly said Russians defending the war in Ukraine have been "brainwashed." The former astronaut became an online "troll" of Russia's former space chief earlier this year. Kelly has used his 5.3 million followers on Twitter to blast Russia's attack on Ukraine, and played a part in the departure of Russia's top space official. Trolling to oblivionKelly spent 340 days on the International Space Station with NASA as part of a program run in collaboration with Russia's space agency Roscosmos. But he also directed his anger at Russians more generally who endorse a message that Russia is defending itself from Ukrainian "Nazis".

☆ SpaceX capsule heads to space station ferrying NASA crew and Russian
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly after the launch that the flight marked “a new phase of our cooperation” with the U.S. space agency NASA. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endurance, lifted off into clear skies at noon EDT (1600 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. As the spacecraft entered Earth orbit, Kikina radioed her thanks to NASA, Roscosmos and their International Space Station (ISS) partners for “giving us this great opportunity.”“We’re so glad to do it together,” Kikina said. The mission, designated Crew-5, marks the fifth full-fledged ISS crew NASA has flown aboard a SpaceX vehicle since the private rocket venture founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk began sending U.S. astronauts aloft in May 2020. Rounding out the crew from Japan’s space agency JAXA was veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata, 59, a robotics expert making his fifth voyage to space.

☆ SpaceX will fly Russian cosmonauts to the ISS under new NASA deal with Russia's space agency
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-18 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

NASA's deal with Roscosmos means SpaceX will launch Russian cosmonauts to the ISS this year. In September, Anna Kikina will be the first Russian to launch on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, per Reuters. Meanwhile, US astronaut Frank Rubio will fly from Russia's Cosmodrome launch site, NASA told Reuters. In exchange, cosmonaut Anna Kikina will launch on SpaceX's Crew Dragon from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said. Not long after the deal was announced, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Dmitry Rogozin as Russia's space chief, the Kremlin announced on Friday.

☆ Vladimir Putin fires Russia's space chief Dmitry Rogozin, who trolled Elon Musk and astronaut Scott Kelly
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-16 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Dmitry Rogozin has been fired as Russia's space chief, the Kremlin announced on Friday. Rogozin has had public spats with Elon Musk and astronaut Scott Kelly in recent months. The former space chief also said Elon Musk should be held accountable for sending Starlink satellites to help Ukraine in the early days of the invasion. Rogozin previously threatened to send the space station crashing into the US or Europe if Russia was hit by sanctions. Last week, NASA rebuked Roscosmos after Russian astronauts flew separatist flags on the ISS in support of Russia's invasion.

☆ NASA, Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights - Roscosmos
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-15 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] The NASA logo is seen at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the NASA/SpaceX launch of a commercial crew mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Joe SkipperJuly 15 (Reuters) - NASA and Russia's space agency Roscosmos have signed a long-sought agreement to integrate flights to the International Space Station, allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S.-made spacecraft in exchange for American astronauts being able to ride on Russia's Soyuz, the agencies said Friday. The two agencies had previously shared astronaut seats on the U.S. shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The U.S. space agency has said having at least one Russian and one American aboard the space station is crucial to keeping the laboratory running. "Flying integrated crews ensures there are appropriately trained crew members on board the station for essential maintenance and spacewalks," NASA said in a statement on Friday.

☆ Putin orders shake-up at Russia's space agency
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Summary Outspoken Dmitry Rogozin replaced by Yuri BorisovDeputy PM Borisov has defence backgroundRoscosmos space agency signs new deal with NASAJuly 15 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered a shake-up of Russia's space agency on Friday, appointing Yuri Borisov, a former deputy prime minister and deputy defence minister, to replace Dmitry Rogozin as its head. Rogozin had taken a confrontational stance since Roscosmos was hit with sanctions for its role in Russia's defence industry after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. He had threatened to pull out of the ISS, saying cooperation with the West was "impossible," and pointedly bragged about Russia's nuclear potential. In a video posted on its Telegram channel, Roscosmos hailed the progress made at the space agency under Rogozin, who was appointed in 2018. Those achievements included "a record 86 successful launches in a row, construction of the Russian segment of the ISS...and flight tests for a powerful inter-continental ballistic missile," Roscosmos said.

☆ Former NASA official says a Russian designer famously inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX by spitting on his shoes
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver details how Elon Musk first started SpaceX in a new book. Musk decided to launch the company after he was disrespected by several Russians, per reports. The SpaceX CEO famously decided to launch his own space venture after he was spat on by a Russian engineer in 2001. Garver commented on the incident in "Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age," published June 21. The Co-Founder described the situation similarly in a biography on Musk by Ashlee Vance, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

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