The crew of the Chinese space station began unloading the cargo ship "Tianzhou-3"
Next, the taikonauts will perform work on the movement of goods and other related tasks
The crew of the Chinese Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft on Sunday began unloading the Tianzhou-3 spacecraft, which contains food, equipment and other cargo necessary for the astronauts to stay in orbit. This is stated in the message of the Manned Flight Program of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), published on the official account on the social network WeChat.
The Chinese ship Shenzhou-13 docked with the orbital station of the People's Republic of China
The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-13 with three cosmonauts docked with the main compartment of the PRC orbital station. This was reported on Saturday, October 16, by CGTN TV channel.
China launched a rocket with astronauts to the Chinese orbital station
The Changzheng-2F carrier rocket with the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft launched to the Chinese orbital station with three cosmonauts. This is on Friday, October 15, follows from the broadcast of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), carried out by China Central Television.
Virgin Galactic announced a new start date for commercial suborbital flights
Richard Branson's company has pushed the start of commercial suborbital flights to the fourth quarter of next year. This is due to the refinement of equipment and new tests.
The billionaire's company postponed commercial suborbital flights
Virgin Galactic, controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has postponed commercial suborbital flights of the Unity spacecraft for the last quarter of 2022, according to the company's website.
NASA delivered the James Webb telescope for $10 billion to the Kourou Cosmodrome
NASA has delivered the James Webb telescope to the Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The cost of the equipment is estimated at $10 billion, the Izvestia TV channel reports.
Rogozin: the launch of the "Skif" will avoid man-made and environmental disasters
The Skif spacecraft are designed to provide broadband Internet access
The launch of the Skif spacecraft and the Marathon satellite constellation as part of the Sphere program, which allows creating a full-fledged broadband Internet system in Russia, will contribute to the prevention of man-made and environmental disasters, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.
Advanced technologies of JSC GLONASS are presented at the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
The participants of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress, held in Hamburg (Germany), got acquainted with the unique experience of Russia in ensuring transport security, the press service of GLONASS JSC reports.
The launch of Soyuz-ST-B with Galileo satellites is scheduled for December 1
The rocket will be launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana
The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with Galileo spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for December 1, 2021. This was reported on Friday in Roscosmos.
European top manager "remembered" about Russia after Rogozin's comment
Announcing the recent launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage of OneWeb satellites, Arianespace executive Director Stefan Israel "remembered" the contribution of the Russian side to the mission only after he was "congratulated" by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, RIA Novosti writes.
China's orbital station does not plan to exchange telemetry data with Russia yet
At the same time, the PRC does not exclude that such interaction between the two countries is theoretically quite feasible
The Chinese orbital station does not yet plan to exchange its telemetry data (flight parameters) with the Russian space communication centers. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Friday by the deputy head of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Lin Xiqiang.
Rogozin called the work of the Fregat upper stage excellent
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, considered the work of the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle and the launch complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to be excellent. He expressed this opinion in an interview with journalists on Thursday, October 14, at the Vostochny cosmodrome.
NASA said that they are cooperating with Roscosmos on the incident with the loss of orientation of the ISS
The restoration of control over the orientation of the station took about 30 minutes, the department noted
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is cooperating with Roscosmos to establish the root causes of the incident that led to a change in the orientation of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. This was reported to TASS by a NASA representative.
The MCC named the reason for the shutdown of the Soyuz engines
The engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, on which the cinema crew is due to return to Earth on October 17, did not turn off as expected during the test, but stopped working when they reached the fuel consumption limit. This was reported on Friday, October 15, at the American Mission Control Center (MCC), the negotiations are broadcast by NASA.
ISS temporarily lost orientation during testing of Soyuz engines
Specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) promptly eliminated the loss of orientation of the International Space Station (ISS), which occurred during the testing of the engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, the rocket and Space Corporation Energia reported.
At night, a siren went off on the ISS due to a malfunction in the Zvezda control system
The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was woken up by a siren on the night of October 16. The sound signal was given due to a malfunction in the control system of the Russian Zvezda module. This follows from the data of the negotiations broadcast by NASA on YouTube.
Rogozin showed where he lives and works during business trips to the Vostochny cosmodrome
The head of Roscosmos lives in one of three guest houses-dormitories, where the leadership of leading rocket and space companies is located
Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin conducted a "tour" of the cottage in which he lives and the workplace for the period of business trips to the Vostochny cosmodrome.
Security control at the Vostochny cosmodrome will be automated
Roscosmos will place special emphasis on preventing threats related to unmanned aerial vehicles
The robotic security platform "Marker" has been tested at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. This is a step towards the introduction of automated security control at a secure facility that does not depend on the human factor, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.
The Chinese company ZHZ demonstrated a TD220 helicopter-type UAV
Zhong Hang - Zhi (ZHZ) Science and Technology Ltd. demonstrated an improved version of the TD220 vertical takeoff and landing UAV at the Airshow China 2021 exhibition held recently in Zhuhai.
The US Air Force has ordered quiet supersonic drones
American pilots will learn air battles with "an almost equal opponent." October 14, portal aero-mag.com He reported that the US Air Force has signed a contract with Exosonic for the construction of supersonic drones.