The Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, commonly known as Rospatent, told Sputnik on Wednesday it had granted the Vector research center patents for its COVID-19 vaccine. Earlier in the day, it was announced that Vector had finished the clinical trials of its vaccine against coronavirus.
"The Research Center of...
A Russian scientist has been detained in Siberia for allegedly passing technology to China, Russian media reported on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Alexander Lukanin, a 64-year-old scientist from the Siberian city of Tomsk, was detained on Tuesday after returning from China where he had been working at a local university, according...
Russia, for the first time in 11 years, plans to launch two new modules to the International Space Station (ISS) in April and September 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik.
In late July, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin announced that the...
Hackers carried out attacks several months ago on computers of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine’s developers, Director of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology said on Saturday, TASS writes.
"Hacker attacks were carried out. But I’m not a specialist in IT technologies to say whether they were linked to...
Russia’s commission for selecting cosmonauts will suggest extending the current selection until December in a letter to Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, the press service of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center told TASS.
"The selection commission made the decision to suggest the head of Roscosmos extending the selection until...
Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks that Russia and the US need to reach an agreement on incident prevention in the cybersphere, TASS informed.
"To jointly develop and conclude a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on preventing incidents in the information space similarly to the Soviet-American Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On...
Russia's dominant lender Sberbank is planning one of the biggest reinventions in its 179-year history as it seeks to join the likes of Apple and Google in the global pantheon of Big Tech, Reuters reported.
The company, which is dropping the word “bank” from its logo as part of this drive,...
The International Space Station (ISS) has completed an avoidance maneuver to avert a crash into unidentified space debris, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said via Twitter Tuesday. "Maneuver Burn complete. The astronauts are coming out of safe haven," he noted.
Earlier, NASA reported that the ISS crew had to take a...
A nuclear-powered ice breaker Russia says is the world’s largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a two-week journey to the Arctic as part of Moscow’s efforts to tap the region’s commercial potential, Reuters reported.
Known as “Arktika,” the nuclear icebreaker left St. Petersburg and is headed for...
The first launch of the OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny spaceport is scheduled for December 2020, the statement by the press service of Arianespace made public on Monday said, TASS reported.
"The next Soyuz launch for OneWeb is targeted as soon as December 2020," the statement reads. The launch...
