posted 02-06-2025 09:18 AM               

Dmitry Bakanov appointed CEO of Roscosmos State Corporation

Vladimir Putin signed the Decree "On the General Director of the State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos".

Text of the Decree:

1. To appoint Dmitry Vladimirovich Bakanov as General Director of the State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos.

2. This Decree shall enter into force on the date of its signing.

posted 02-06-2025 09:20 AM               

Bakanov, the incoming Roscosmos chief, previously led Gonets, which had a joint venture with satellite internet startup OneWeb until Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) scrapped the project in 2018 over espionage concerns.

posted 07-31-2025 08:34 AM               

Roscosmos said this week that its director general, Dmitry Bakanov, would visit the United States this week to attend the Crew-11 launch, scheduled for midday Thursday, and while there meet with NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy. NASA has not publicly announced the meeting, although Duffy said at a Capitol Hill event that he wanted to maintain partnerships between the U.S. and Russia in space despite “wild disagreement” over the war in Ukraine.

The last time the heads of NASA and Roscosmos met in person was in October 2018 while attending a launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.