Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that his country's space industry work faster and be more commercially successful. The number of Russian satellites must grow several times over, and launches should also become more cost-effective, said Putin during a visit to the space center in Korolyov near Moscow. Russia must also make progress with multiple-use launchers.

Putin set the goal of launching the first segment of a new Russian space station to replace the aging International Space Station (ISS) in 2027. The Russian lunar program will also continue despite the loss of the Luna-25 probe in August. “Mistakes are mistakes,” he said, according to the Interfax agency. But you can learn from setbacks. The first Russian lunar mission in almost five decades failed when the probe landed on Earth's satellite.