TV Roskosmos
TV Roskosmos or TV Roscosmos is the television station of Roscosmos. The channel and studio is managed by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. Unlike its United States counterpart, NASA TV, it does not operate 24 hours a day. When available, TV Roskosmos is streamed live over YouTube. During coverage related to the International Space Station, NASA TV will sometimes carry Roskosmos TV segments with English voiceover translation.
Roscosmos TV-Studio is a TV production studio, affiliated within the structure of Roscosmos, producing and promoting documentaries that highlight the most timely and historic events of the national space industry in Russia and abroad. The Studio's films, programmes and reports dwell on cutting-edge space equipment and people participating in space programmes including scientists, designers, cosmonauts. Video materials devoted to the history of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics touch upon the issues of astronomy and planetology.
History
The television studio of Roscosmos was organised on 11 January 2005. Since that time over 100 documentaries have been produced, all of which were broadcast on the Russian national central 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, which highlighted the latest achievements of Russian cosmonautics. From September 2008 the programme was anchored by the space pilot Fyodor Yurchikhin. From April 2010 to March 2011, the TV-Studio's almanac-programme Russian Space was aired on the educational channel My Planet.
Since March 2008, the studio has provided live broadcasts of launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome and Russian operations on the ISS.
TV-Studio produces promotional videos intended to promote the national space industry on world aerospace shows and exhibitions, as well as commercial films on request of Roscosmos enterprises. From March 2007 to March 2009, TV-Studio aired a joint weekly programme devoted to cosmonautics, Poyekhali!, on the radio station Zvezda FM. From November 2009 to July 2011, Voice of Russia broadcast the joint programme Space Wednesday. In 2007 the Studio began its regular participation in domestic and international television contests.
On 11 April 2008, Roscosmos TV-Studio's website was officially launched.
Staff
Chief Executive of Roscosmos TV-Studio is Alexander Ostrovsky. The Studio's staff is composed of editors, correspondents and cameramen possessing professional experiences of working on the Russian national central television.Films
The TV-Studio produces:- weekly news programme Cosmonautics on the Russian information channel Rossiya 24
- weekly TV-almanac Russian Space on TV-Channel Rossiya 2 and educational satellite channel My Planet
- documentaries
- commercial videos
- space related video presentations
| Documentaries | Video Presentations |
| White Sun of Baikonur | 60 Years of RNII KP |
| The Tsar-Rocket. Interrupted Flight | 65 Years of FGUP NPP VNIIEM |
| Russian Speaking Space | Space Orbits of Samara |
| First on Mars. The Unsung Song of Sergey Korolyov | Russia's Space – to the Russian Regions |
| He Could Have Been the First One. Cosmonaut's Nelyubov Drama | Space Information Systems |
| Hydrospace. Dive to Fly Up | NII PM: Accuracy as Priority |
| Space Visionary | GLONASS |
| Satellite Instead of Bomb | Russia's Space. Launching into the 21st Century |
| The Firegod's Last Love | TsENKI – Labouring for Space |
| Start No. 100 | 50 Years of Space Age |
| Stellar Amazons | 30 Years of IPK Mashpribor |
| The Call of the Abyss | Space Navigators |
| Boris Chertok. A Shot into the Universe | Land Launch. The First Lift-Off |
| Dreams Come True | Viktor Kuznetsov's Intelligent Devices |
| Star Wars General | The First Space Minister |
| The Ghost Train. Kolchak's Treasure Mystery | TsAGI. Relying on the Intellect |
| Space to Earth | |
| TsENKI. We are Responsible for Space on the Ground | |
| Space for Humankind | |
| Waltzing Soyuzes | |
| Russia the Space Power | |
| Children and Space | |
| Samara the Space | |
| Proton – My Destiny |
Awards
For the documentary Hydrocosmos: Dive to Take Off, the film crew of Roscosmos TV-Studio was awarded with the prize Minor Gold Dolphin on the VI International Festival of Underwater Shooting Gold Dolphin 2007.In December 2007 the documentary film He Could Have Been the First: The Drama of Cosmonaut Nelyubov won in the international contest and obtained a national award "Lavr" in the field of documentary cinematograph and television in the nomination for the "best popular-science film".
In May 2008 Roscosmos TV-Studio's film The White Sun of Baikonur stood third in the nomination For Faith and Fidelity on the III International Television Festival Won Together which took place on 7–12 May 2008 in Sevastopol.
In April 2009 the Roscosmos TV-Studio's website won a prize of the contest Stars of AstroRunet-2008. It stood third both in the nominations Breakthrough of the Year and Best Official Cosmonautics Related Website, along with the site of the Russian Mission Control Centre.
The Roscosmos TV-Studio's documentary Start No. 100: The Union of Titans obtained the diploma and the special prize Fruit of Cognition on the IV International Festival of Popular-Science Films World of Knowledge which was held on 19–23 October 2009 in Saint-Petersburg.
In April 2010 the Roscosmos TV-Studio's website stood third in the contest Stars of AstroRunet-2009.