This provision has been included into the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Russian companies ‘Sputniks’ and ‘Glavcosmos Launch Services’ and the Tunisian company Telnet Holding. The partners agreed to cooperate in designing small...
Skolkovo resident company 3D Bioprinting Solutions has become the first company to use a 3D printer to create live tissue in space, printing an organ construct for the thyroid gland of a mouse on board the International Space Station (ISS) this month. ...
Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Skolkovo...
A pair of very special speakers took part in a conference devoted to 3D bioprinting in space at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday. Two cosmonauts – commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Oleg Artemyev – answered questions and interacted...
Every spring for the last three years, Russia’s leading space experts have met for the InSpace Forum in Moscow to discuss how to boost the country’s space industry by facilitating cooperation between the state space corporation Roscosmos and the...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
The Skolkovo innovation city is gearing up to host the biggest Open Innovations forum that Russia has yet seen on October 16-18, featuring tech stars, government representatives, entrepreneurs, businesspeople and futurologists from around the world. International...
Skolkovo aerospace startups were out in force at the MAKS international aviation and space salon, which opened its doors in the aviation hub town of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin speaking at the opening of the MAKS...
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying two satellites made by Dauria Aerospace successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.36 a.m. on Friday. The Soyuz launch vehicle being readied for takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome this...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
Last year was a dynamic time for space technologies, full of great achievements and ambitious plans as well as epic failures and accidents, reminding us of the complexity of space exploration, writes Ivan Kosenkov, a project manager with the Skolkovo Foundation’s...
Two Skolkovo startups made international headlines earlier this year when they announced that they were working together on a 3D printer for the International Space Station that would be able to print satellites directly in space. Several months later, the...
CosmoCourse , a private Russian space exploration enterprise, has become the first company to get approval from federal space corporation Roscosmos for its space tourism project. The company, one of a slew of up-and-coming space startups that have resident...
The ears of U.S. space entrepreneur Elon Musk should by all rights have been burning furiously on Thursday, when he became one of the most discussed topics at the InSpace forum and conference in Moscow. At the opening discussion, devoted to the relationship...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
A Skolkovo startup is training Russia’s Emergencies Ministry in the art of drone piloting as the government seeks innovative new ways of responding to disasters in hard-to-reach areas. Aerob CEO Andrei Mamontov delivers the training package to the...
Lin Industrial is a Russian startup business that believes sending satellites into space should be less epic blastoff and more paper airplane. Only recently entering the Skolkovo fold as a resident, the company already has a co-investor and is filing for...