The new complex belongs to a family of robust launch vehicles developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. Various launching systems are intended to be deployed in the low Earth orbit and are aimed to replace several existing ones, along with Soyuz-2 variants.
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86 cargo ship on Sunday, Dec. 3, due to an autopilot issue.
Russian Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft prevented the collision of the International Space Station (ISS) with space debris, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Friday.