For the first time cosmonauts used tablet computer to control their spacecraft
March 30, 2015
The crew of the manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M during launch, rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station used a tablet computer in their work for the first time in the history of Russian spaceflight.
Young specialists from RSC Energia visited S.A. Lavochkin NPO
March 30, 2015
Young specialists of RSC Energia visited S.A. Lavochkin Research and Production Association (NPO). The visit was organized within the framework of "Youth Projects" of the Council of Young Specialists of the Corporation.
Soyuz TMA-16M has delivered a crew of participants in a one-year mission to the ISS
March 28, 2015
Manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M carrying an international crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and the NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
The State Commission meeting
March 26, 2015
The State Commission held its meeting at Baikonur launch site where the primary and backup crews for Soyuz TMA-16M were approved and the readiness of the space launcher system was confirmed.
Russia and US are to increase the number of joint experiments onboard the ISS
March 25, 2015
The share of joint Roscosmos/NASA experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) is to significantly increase with the start of the one-year-long mission of the Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and US astronaut Scott Kelly.
LV Soyuz rollout to the launch pad
March 25, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz launch vehicle was rolled out from the integration building to the launch pad. Soyuz launch vehicle with Soyuz TMA-16M transport vehicle is installed on the launch pad. L-2 days activities have been started.
Meetings of the Technical management and State commission were held
March 24, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Meetings of the Technical management and State commission were held. A decision on rollout of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned spacecraft to the launch facility and its preparation for launch planned for March 27, 2015 was adopted.
LV Soyuz general integration is completed
March 24, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the LV Integration and Checkout Facility, the basic integration of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the upper composite has been completed.
RSC Energia employee is awarded a governor's premium
March 24, 2015
The Moscow region Governor's premium in sphere of science and innovations for the young scientists and specialists was granted to fifteen young scientists from the Moscow region. Among them there also was RSC Energia representative, senior research scientist, Candidate of Science Evgeniy Starovoytov.
60th anniversary of the first firing of liquid-propellant steering engine
March 24, 2015
Today, March 24 is the 60th anniversary of the first firing of the liquid oxygen/kerosene steering engine for the intercontinental ballistic missile R-7.
Orbital module of the LV Soyuz-FG with SC Soyuz TMA-16M was transported for the general integration with LV
March 23, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing the Soyuz TMA-16M manned spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.
A check inspection of the SC Soyuz TMA-16M was performed
March 23, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the assembly/test building primary (Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Roscosmos, Russia), Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko (Roscosmos, Russia) and Scott Joseph Kelly (NASA, USA)) and backup (Alexey Nikolaevich Ovchinin (Roscosmos, Russia), Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov (Roscosmos, Russia) and Jeffry Nels Williams (NASA, USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-16M transportation spacecraft made a check inspection of the spacecraft in the launch configuration.
There will be lessons of scandinavian walk in "Voshod" holiday hotel
March 23, 2015
The school of scandinavian walk is opening at the beginning of April in "Voshod" holiday hotel which is one of RSC Energia health-improving facilities.
Designers inspection of SC Soyuz TMA-16M and payload shroud roll were performed
March 20, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Designers inspection of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was completed.
Payload shroud roll on to the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was performed.
Vladimir SOLNTSEV became a full member of Tsiolkovsky Russian Cosmonautics Academy
March 20, 2015
President of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia Vladimir SOLNTSEV has been elected a full member of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics (TRAC).
Employees of RSC Energia Yuri ULYBYSHEV and Rafail MURTAZIN became corresponding members of TRAC.
RSC Energia will be developing volunteer movement to help veterans
March 20, 2015
On the eve of 70th anniversary of the Victory the Corporation's young specialists put forward an initiative to organize mass volunteer movement.
RSC Energia and South Urals State University became partners
March 20, 2015
Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and South Urals State University (Chelyabinsk) have concluded a strategic partnership agreement.
Moscow Aviation Institute celebrates its 85th anniversary
March 20, 2015
Today Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) is 85. This legendary institution of higher learning was founded on March 20, 1930 - it was on that day that by a government decision a separate educational institution was established on the basis of the aeromechanical department of the Bauman Moscow Superior Technical School (MVTU) in order to train highly skilled personnel for the aviation industry of our country.
On the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk Alexei Leonov inaugurated an Alley of Cosmonauts
March 19, 2015
In Krasnogorsk, a town located near Moscow, on the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk an Alley of Cosmonauts has been inaugurated. It prominently features an exact copy of Voskhod-2, the spacecraft onboard which the crew consisting of Belyaev and Leonov accomplished their historic mission.
The first egress of man into space is 50 years
March 18, 2015
Today 50 years have passed since the first egress of man into space. Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965 left the board of Voskhod-2 being in orbit and stayed in space 12 minutes and 9 seconds. This egress proved the possibility of extravehicular activity of man in space and opened a new page in the history of world cosmonautics.
Greetings to Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov
A transfer compartment was docked with SC Soyuz TMA-16M
March 18, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
A transfer compartment was docked with Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
RSC Energia youth: we remember, we are proud
March 18, 2015
Energia Corporation youth declared start of two patriotic projects: "We remember, we are proud!" and "The Challenge of 1945th" in the year of 70th anniversary celebration of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
RSC Energia and D.F.Ustinov Baltic State Technical Military-Mechanical University "VOENMEH" are to implement a joint program of employer-sponsored education of students
March 17, 2015
Eleven students from D.F.Ustinov Baltic State Technical Military-Mechanical University "VOENMEH" embark on their graduation projects at RSC Energia under the employer-sponsored education program "New Specialists for Defense Industry Complex" An agreement with VOENMEH about implementation of this specialist training program was signed by vice president of the Corporation for personnel and social policies Mikhail Komarov.
Fuelled SC Soyuz TMA-16M was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility
March 17, 2015
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations.
Soyuz TMA-16M crews initiated a final training phase
March 15, 2015
The prime and backup crews for the ISS-43/44 initiated a final training phase in the processing facility.
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Roscosmos, Russia), Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko
(Roscosmos, Russia), Scott Joseph Kelly (NASA, USA), Alexey Nikolaevich Ovchinin
(Roscosmos, Russia), Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov (Roscosmos, Russia) and Jeffry Nels Williams (NASA, USA) had training sessions onboard the spacecraft, with laser ranger and satellite phone, acquainted with the onboard documentation and the content of cargoes launched and also made a fitting of the Sokol-KB space suits and individual liners.
Soyuz TMA-16M primary and backup crews arrived to the Baikonur launch site
March 14, 2015
Primary (Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Roscosmos, Russia), Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko (Roscosmos, Russia) and Scott Joseph Kelly (NASA, USA)) and backup (Alexey Nikolaevich Ovchinin (Roscosmos, Russia), Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov (Roscosmos, Russia) and Jeffry Nels Williams (NASA, USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-16M transportation spacecraft arrived to the Baikonur launch site.
"One-year mission of Kornienko and Kelly to the ISS will be interesting and intensive", - according to Vladimir Soloviev, the First Deputy General Designer of RSC Energia.
March 13, 2015
Future participants of year long mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will conduct in orbit lots of scientific-technical, medical, astrophysical and other experiments, the results of which are expected to bring mankind nearer to implementing manned missions to deep space.
RSC Energia representatives spoke at 42nd Gagarin's Readings
March 13, 2015
RSC Energia employees took part in the 42nd International Socio-Scientific Readings dedicated to the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
At the plenary meeting the following persons addressed the audience: Alexander Alexandrov, adviser to the Corporation President, pilot-cosmonaut, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union; Viktor Blagov, the leading specialist; Raphail Murtazin, Deputy Head of one of the Corporation departments. Maxim Yablochko, RSC Energia's engineer, and pupils at school ? 12 under the patronage of RSC Energia, Korolev city, presented reports at its groups.
Crew of Soyuz TMA-14M returned to Earth after a six-month mission
March 12, 2015
The descent vehicle of the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-14M made a successful landing 147 km to the South East of Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan). The touch-down occurred at 05:14 Moscow Time. The crew consists of Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutiyaev and Yelena Serova, as well as a NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore.
Specialists from Roscosmos, RSC Energia and IBMP are to present the program of the one-year mission to the ISS
March 12, 2015
A joint press conference of representatives from Roscosmos, RSC Energia and IBMP, dedicated to the upcoming one-year mission to the International Space Station (ISS) of a Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, is to take place on March 12 at the Moscow office of the TASS news agency.
In memory of Leonid Ivanovich Gusev
March 11, 2015
The management, collective, the Council of Veterans at S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia present their heartfelt condolences to the team of OAO Russian Space Systems, the relatives and near relations in connection with the death of the prominent Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of radio engineering, one of the founders of the rocket-space industry, the Hero of Socialist Labour, the USSR and RF Lenin and State prize winner, the Doctor of Science (Engineering), Professor Leonid Ivanovich Gusev.
Graduates of technological universities choose RSC Energia
March 11, 2015
More than 200 applicants showed interest to work in RSC "Energia". This data was provided by personnel department's specialists of the Corporation after participation in the largest job fair "Technokratiya" for technical specialists, in which "Energia" has been taken part since 2013th.
RSC Energia has become the point of departure for expedition by motor vehicles to cosmonauts landing area
March 10, 2015
Sponsors of motor car expedition chose RSC Energia as the point of departure for a motor rally to the landing area of Soyuz TMA-14M space vehicle crew. Participants in motor rally visited RSC Energia Museum, conversed with the Corporation specialists and had their photos taken for a keepsake.
Visit of RSC Energia's young employees to OKB Sukhoi
March 10, 2015
Representatives of RSC Energia's Young Specialists Board paid return visit to their colleagues at OAO OKB Sukhoi.
They started to familiarize themselves with the enterprise with viewing famous vehicles developed by design bureau Sukhoi: from light bomber Su-2 used during the World War II to the world renowned modern fighter Su-27.
Gala concert given to female co-workers
March 5, 2015
Before celebrating the International Womens' Day, the Central Palace of Culture after Kalinin hosted the gala concert.
Mikhail Komarov, the Vice President for Personnel and Social Policy, read out the congratulation extended by the Corporation President Vladimir Solntsev.
Results of the contest for the drawings devoted to space topic summarised
March 5, 2015
Aleksei Leonov, the pilot-cosmonaut, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, personally selected eight winners from the 12 nominees of the contest for space-related drawings which had been held under the auspices of RSC Energia and concluded in the Star City.
RSC Energia held a session of the Council of Chief Designers for the Russian Segment of the ISS
March 3, 2015
RSC Energia has held a session of the Council of Chief Designers for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station.
The Council of Chief Designers has reviewed the launch readiness of the manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M and launch vehicle Soyuz-FG, the readiness of Soyuz TMA-14M for completion of its flight, the readiness of the ISS, launch and range facilities, equipment and personnel of LOCT and MCC, search and rescue vehicles, crew medical support, the crews of Expeditions ISS-43/44 for the upcoming work.
RSC Energia team won the second stage of the sports contest of industry's enterprises
March 3, 2015
RSC Energia representatives won "gold" in individual men and team classifications of chess competitions within the second stage of the sports contest of rocket and space industry's enterprises.
Competitions took place on February, 28 and on March, 1 on the basis of JSC "IPK Mashpribor" among men and women according to "the swiss system" of seven rounds. RSC Energia team was represented by Darya Shaikina, Anatoliy Polischuk, Andrey Tregubov, Oleg Kalinichenko (on the photo).
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