The prime cost of Russia’s carrier rockets Angara will be reduced before 2024 from the current sum of seven billion to four billion rubles (from $100.3 million to $57.3 million), according to the 2019 financial report of the Khrunichev Space Center (the Angara rocket manufacturer), TASS reported.
The Angara is...
Russia will not pressure China into acceding to the Russian-US nuclear arms reduction treaty (New START), Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said Saturday in an open interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman, commenting on Washington’s calls to get Beijing to the negotiating table.
"Regarding ...
This year’s first launch of Gonets telecoms satellites atop a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket has been scheduled for September 20, a source in the Russian space industry told TASS on Friday.
"September 20 has been tentatively scheduled for this year’s first launch of Gonets satellites," the source said adding that the...
Russia’s space corporation, Roscosmos, is advocating the adoption of a resolution to prevent an arms race in space as a response to the defense space strategy developed by the Pentagon, said Sergei Savelyev, Roscosmos Deputy Director-General, TASS reported.
"We act consistently on all possible venues including, in particular, the Conference on...
The founder of Telegram Messenger Pavel Durov criticized Apple and Google for high taxes on sales of digital products for mobile phones, TASS reported.
"Apple and Google impose an insane 30% sales tax on all digital goods sold on every mobile phone in the world. The result - users pay...
US B-52H strategic bombers have again been spotted near Russian borders, forcing its Baltic Sea Fleet's Su-27 fighter jets to take to the skies and monitor their actions, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
Video released by Moscow showed all stages of the 'intercept' – from the pilot in full gear...
President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday Russia was developing the means to counter other countries’ hypersonic weapons, local news agencies reported.
“It’s very likely that we will have means to combat hypersonic weapons by the time the world’s leading countries have such weapons,” Reuters reports, quoting RIA Novosti.
Russia’s most-advanced new nuclear-powered submarine entered service on Friday, the defense ministry said, at a time of growing arms control tensions between Moscow and the West, Reuters reported.
The Knyaz Vladimir (Prince Vladimir) - designed to carry Bulava intercontinental nuclear missiles - was enrolled into the navy during Friday’s Russia...
Russia should "pick up on the trends" in digitalization that arose during the coronavirus pandemic, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on communications and IT industry. The head of state called for being proactive, while ensuring cyber security, TASS writes.
"It’s necessary, as they say, to catch these trends...
The number of 5G base stations that provide access to super-fast wireless networks is set to more than quadruple across China in 2020, its industry and information technology ministry has revealed to local media, Russia Today reported.
Around 250,000 units are currently operating in the country, offering services to over...
