During his speech at the Space Integration forum, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin recalled a sixfold reduction in the number of launch complexes at the Baikonur cosmodrome located in Kazakhstan and leased by Russia. The statement of the head of the state corporation is quoted by RIA Novosti.

Pad No. 1 is the oldest launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan Baubek Oralmagambetov said that he hopes to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the Russian Federation and the UAE to modernize the Gagarin Launch at Baikonur next year.

In turn, Bill Nelson stated that he was looking forward to meeting with Rogozin

Roscosmos hopes that the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, will visit Russia in 2022. This was announced by the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for International Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

The first flight of the Belarusian cosmonaut will take place in 2023-2024, a girl may become one, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

"I asked the Belarusian side to pick up the girls," Rogozin told reporters.

According to him, Roscosmos expects that the flight will take place in 2023-2024.

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will go to the ISS on Soyuz MS-20

The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft is installed on the launch pad No. 31 ("Vostok") of the Baikonur cosmodrome, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

According to the head of Roscosmos, work on the deployment of the Russian orbital service Station has already begun

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin believes that 2028 will be critical for the continuation of work on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Berth node module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) can be equipped with an international docking adapter International Docking Adapter (IDA) and used for docking American spacecraft Crew Dragon and Starliner, writes Teslarati.

Roscosmos specialists will begin testing the reusable stage of the Krylo-SV launch vehicle next year, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rocket and space industry.

One of the demonstrators of the reusable stage of the promising Russian light rocket "Krylo-SV" will receive a landing gear, a turbojet engine and a nose cone, like an airplane, which will allow it to take off, fly and return to the airfield in the same way as a drone (UAV) does, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rocket and space industry.

Launches and landings of the Amur-LNG rocket will be carried out at a separate complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome. Earlier it was reported that they plan to start research work on a parachute system for a reusable carrier next year.

Nature continues to share with us its "know-how" with great generosity, the stock of which is unlikely to ever run out, and does it completely free of charge. This time, engineers from Stanford "borrowed" from her, or rather from the falcon, its unique claws, with which it confidently sits on a variety of surfaces and deftly grabs prey.

Tests of a new engine of its own production have been completed in China. The turboprop power unit is designed for drones. The Chinese engine will increase the efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in high-altitude conditions, writes Global Times.

The United Arab Emirates is buying 80 Rafale fighters. On December 3, the press service of Dassault Aviation announced the signing of a "historic contract" for the latest modification of a combat aircraft.

According to Indian media, the Indian Air Force received two Mirage-2000 fighters from the French Air Force. The planes were delivered to the Gwalior Air Base.

The UAE will buy a record number of Rafale fighters from France, according to Dassault Aviation. In July, the head of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov called this French aircraft an analogue of the promising Su-75.

As the French company Dassault Aviation reported on December 3, 2021, the United Arab Emirates signed a "historic" contract for the purchase of 80 French multifunctional fighters Dassault Rafale in the F4 modification. The contract was signed during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the UAE, in the presence of Macron himself and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

On December 1, the Government of Canada officially announced that, based on the results of the evaluation of the submitted proposals, two applicants will continue to participate in the tender for the supply of new fighters for the country's Air Force.

Canada is approaching the final of the "fighter" tender. On December 2, the press service of the Canadian Ministry of Defense announced that the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block III aircraft dropped out of the tender for the purchase of new fighters.

The possibilities of using an autopilot with artificial intelligence will be studied on the basis of the Ka-226 helicopter, it follows from the materials of public procurement.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation hopes that the certification of the MS-21 aircraft will be completed by the end of this year. This was announced to TASS on December 4 by the head of the department Denis Manturov.