The last group of employees of Russia's NPO Lavochkin, which is part of the Roscosmos space corporation, will leave the Kourou space center in French Guiana, which has been temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, this Friday, an official from the company said on Tuesday

Russia's cooperation with other countries on space projects has been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Friday

Twenty-one Russian specialists remaining at the space center in French Guiana's Kourou will be repatriated by the end of the month, Andrey Okhlopkov, the director-general of the Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure (TsENKI), which is a subsidiary of Russian state corporation Roscosmos, said on Friday

US private aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab has postponed the launch of its Electron rocket from New Zealand, as local authorities have restricted the activity of businesses as part of measures to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said in a press release

All employees of the Russian rocket industrial sector who returned from the Kourou spaceport in Latin America are being put under quarantine for two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, the press service of Russian state space agency Roscosmos told Sputnik on Monday

Russia launched on Saturday a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with 34 UK satellites for the OneWeb project from the Baikonur spaceport, the live broadcast of the launch on the Roscosmos website showed

Russian State Space Agency Roscosmos told Sputnik on Wednesday that it plans to bring all of its employees back home from the Kourou spaceport in South America due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a plane will be sent there for this purpose