Space satellites (2019)

ExoMars is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos to explore Mars.

The first stage of the ExoMars-2016 mission began on March 14, 2016. The Russian Proton-M launch vehicle from Baikonur launched an interplanetary station into orbit, which includes the Trace Gas Orbiter orbital module and the Schiaparelli landing platform.

The start of the second stage of the ExoMars 2020 mission is in the summer of 2020.

Spektr-R is an international space scientific project "RadioAstron" for the exploration of the Universe in the radio range.

The spacecraft was created at S.A. Lavochkin NPO. Launched into orbit by the Zenit 3SL BF launch vehicle on July 18, 2011. Spektr-R operated in a high elliptical geocentric orbit of the Earth until February 2019. The radio telescope is noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest space telescope.

Spektr-Roentgen-Gamma is a Russian scientific project with German participation.

The main task is to build a complete map of the universe in the X-ray wavelength range.

Spectrum-RG was created at S.A. Lavochkin NGO. Two telescopes are placed on the device: the Russian "ART-XC" and the German "eROSITA".

The observatory was successfully launched into space on July 13, 2019 from Baikonur by a Proton-M carrier rocket.

Spektr-RG will operate at the L2 Lagrange point one and a half million kilometers from Earth.

"Spectrum-UV" or "World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet" is a space telescope.

Designed for imaging and spectroscopy in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.

Spektr-UV will open up new opportunities for planetary, stellar, extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology research.

With its help, it is planned to study the physicochemical properties of planetary atmospheres and comets, the physics of the atmospheres of hot stars, the nature of active galactic nuclei, intergalactic gas clouds and gravitational lenses.

"Millimetron" or "Spectrum-M" is the fourth project of scientific devices of the "Spectrum" series.

This is a space observatory of millimeter and infrared wavelengths with a cryogenic telescope with a diameter of 10 meters. "Millimetron" will work as the largest virtual radio telescope capable of investigating the structure of the nuclei of galaxies, black holes, pulsars, studying relic radiation, looking for the earliest traces of the formation of the Universe.

"Luna-25" (the former name of "Luna-Globe") is being created at the S.A. Lavochkin NGO. Luna-25 is to become the first Russian station on the surface of an Earth satellite after a 40-year hiatus.

The goal of the project is to develop and test soft landing technology.

An additional task is to study the properties of the lunar regolith.

Scientific instruments for Luna-25 are being created at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS).

The Venera-D project was originally conceived as a continuation of the series of Soviet interplanetary stations Venera.

In 2013, a group of specialists from Roscosmos, NASA and a number of scientific organizations in Russia and the USA was created.

The tasks of the group are to determine the scientific goals of studying Venus and to work out the concept of a mission to the planet.

The Venera-D project provides for an orbital and landing vehicles.

The lander must work on the surface of Venus for at least 60 days.

The anthropomorphic robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) with the call sign Skybot F-850 was developed at the NGO "Android Technology".

On August 22, 2019, FEDOR flew to the ISS as the only passenger of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft.

At the station, cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Alexey Ovchinin conducted a series of works with the android with onboard tools that may be needed for extravehicular activity.

It is planned that FEDOR will become the "father" of the future squad of robot astronauts for various purposes.

In early September, the ship with the robot successfully returned to Earth.