Space has been part of the Russian national consciousness for more than half a century. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the space industry has had a series of setbacks, but Russia is determined to retain its leading role in space exploration, and in...
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...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
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...
Gifted schoolchildren from the Urals cities of Perm and Yekaterinburg visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Friday to see some of the technologies being developed here and to learn about a new scholarship being launched for Russian students to study at the...
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...
Dauria Aerospace , one of Russia’s first private space startups, is preparing to launch two of its satellites into space on the morning of July 14. The cluster of smallsats has already been integrated with the upper stage of the Fregat at Baikonur...
Almost half of the top 50 Russian startups in 2015 selected by Russia Beyond the Headlines, a news agency publishing Russian news in foreign languages, are resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation. A total of 24 Skolkovo startups were included in the...
The satellites will be able to monitor city functions as well as industrial, mining and transport infrastructure Cybernaut will be pumping US$70 million into the creation of a group of 10 satellites for daily imaging of the 100 biggest cities in the...
FARNBOROUGH, England — Satellite services provider Aniara SpaceCom LLC of India and the United States on July 15 said it has contracted with Russian/German satellite builder Dauria Aerospace to launch two all-electric Ku-band telecommunications satellites...
Dauria Aerospace , a multinational aerospace company providing global satellite-based remote sensing information services, with support of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), is launching its DX1 satellite on board a Soyuz 2-1b rocket. The launch...
A Soyuz 2.1b carrier rocket has successfully launched a next-generation Russian meteorological satellite and six smaller satellites, the Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmos, said in an online statement. Roscosmos said that the Meteor-M meteorological satellite...
Mikhail Kokorich was preparing to study aerospace engineering in Moscow when the collapse of the Soviet Union forced an end to his plans. “At the time, life in Moscow was very difficult,” Kokorich said. “I came from a pretty poor...
Leveraging the same technology found in your smartphone, Dauria Aerospace will launch the first Russian private space satellite for about $3 million early next year. Dauria Aerospace Dauria’s DX-1 satellite Launching DX-1, which is being...
On June 13, 2013 an agreement was signed on the establishment of R&D center for the company “Dauria Aerospace” on the territory of Skolkovo Innovation Centre. An agreement was signed by the executive director of the Skolkovo Foundation...