TV Roskosmos
television channel
TV Roskosmos (Russian: Телестудия Роскосмоса - TeleStudio of Roskosmos), or TV Roscosmos, is the television station of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos. Both the channel and the studio are managed by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Островский). Unlike its United States counterpart, NASA TV, it does not operate 24 hours a day; it also has a YouTube channel. During coverage related to the International Space Station, NASA TV will sometimes carry Roskosmos TV segments with English voiceovers.
Also affiliated with Roscosmos, Roscosmos TV-Studio produces and promotes documentaries that highlight the most significant historic events in Russia's national space industry and aboard. The studio's films, programmes, and reports focus on cutting-edge space technology and the people involved in space programmes, including scientists, designers, and cosmonauts. Videos on the history of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics also cover topics in astronomy and planetology.
History
Roscosmos TV-Studio, the television studio of Roscosmos, was established on 11 January 2005. Since then, over 100 documentaries have been produced, all of which were broadcast on the Russian national TV channels.
From July 2006 to July 2016, round-the-clock news channel Russia-24 hosted a weekly broadcast of Roscosmos TV-Studio's programme Kosmonavtika (Cosmonautics), which highlighted the latest achievements of Russian cosmonautics.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4454118. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2006 and 2016.
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