Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. October 24, 1960 – The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Space Center in ...

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R ...

He said that accidents in the process of launching space technologies occurred all along but in the past they were kept quiet about. As an example he mentioned the Soviet Union’s 54 launches of ...

Russia says a nuclear accident has not occurred on its territory despite "extremely high" traces of a radioactive isotope being found. Russia's weather service acknowledged it had measured ...

Russia's space program has thrown its weight behind NASA's plans to destroy the International Space Station starting in 2030. In 2022, roughly five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Borisov ...

LONDON — Ruptures of undersea cables that have rattled European security officials in recent months were likely the result of maritime accidents rather than Russian sabotage, according to ...

TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos and JSC Glonass will present in China in the coming months their Era-Glonass road accident emergency response system. Russian Deputy Prime ...

though he stopped short of taking responsibility. The Azerbaijan Airlines plane was “hit by accident” while flying over Russian territory and there can be “no talk of a deliberate act of ...