Two non-professional participants of the flight are currently on board the ISS - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov did not rule out that he could become the next pilot to fly into orbit with space tourists.

The Roscosmos State Corporation has concluded contracts with the Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company for the creation of the Skif and Marathon satellite groupings. This was announced by the CEO of ISS JSC Nikolay Testoyedov at the Russian Scientific and Technical Congress "Directions of the national scientific and technological breakthrough 2030".

Now the device is already assembled and is being tested

The first navigation satellite of the new generation "Glonass-K2" may be launched in the second quarter of 2022. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

SpaceNews: China will launch a rocket in 2026 to send taikonauts to the moon

China in 2026 has planned to launch the first rocket that can be used to send taikonauts to the moon by 2030, SpaceNews reports.

Cosmonaut Kornienko called the Moon a transshipment base for the exploration of Mars and the Solar System

Cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko said that the Moon can become a transit point for further exploration of Mars and the Solar System, reports URA.RU .

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted that he was in the air for 124.3 seconds

The Ingenuity helicopter located on Mars has already made its 18th flight during its mission, which began ten months ago. This was announced on Friday by representatives of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) located in Pasadena (California), which is responsible for the implementation of this project.

INTERFAX - The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Saturday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 52 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, launched on Saturday with 52 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The American company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Turkish communications satellite

The American company SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver the Turkish communications satellite Turksat 5A into orbit. This was reported on the company's Twitter account.

They were astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has approved American astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg as part of the sixth crew of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to be sent to the International Space Station in 2023. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the department.

China has conducted two more successful tests of the Tianxing launch vehicle, which in the future will become a prototype for reusable transport spacecraft, the company developing the Space Transportation spacecraft said on Friday.

The S-500 Prometheus anti-missile system is a close relative of the famous S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft system, but with a narrow specialization and wide capabilities. If Triumph is engaged in air defense, then Prometheus is mainly anti-missile. His ammunition is too expensive to waste on ordinary targets. The S-500 works with complex threats that are inaccessible to other systems.

19FortyFive: India may not be afraid of the USA and buy the S-500 Prometheus system from Russia

India may not be afraid of possible sanctions from the United States and indeed become the first buyer of the Russian S-500 Prometheus air defense system, according to the American publication 19FortyFive.

The Russian Pantsir-S short-range air defense systems shot down more than 40 Turkish Bayraktar and Anka drones during the fighting in Syria and Libya, according to a report by the Rossiya-1 TV channel (VGTRK).

The Syrian air defense destroyed seven of the eight rockets fired by Israeli fighter jets at the area of the international airport in Damascus. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, on Thursday, December 16.

The combat radius of the inconspicuous F-35 fighter chosen by Finland is approximately 1200 kilometers. These "electronic monsters" are more like a rocket launcher than an air combat weapon.

The War Zone: tests of the new AGM-183A hypersonic missile in the USA ended in failure

New tests of the American AGM-183A hypersonic missile under the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) program ended in failure. This was reported by the specialized portal The War Zone with reference to a representative of the US Air Force.

Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov called the missile forces a reliable guarantor of national security and protection of the interests of the fatherland

Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov congratulated rocket scientists, their family members, designers and specialists of the military-industrial complex on the Day of Strategic Missile Forces, which is celebrated on December 17.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) turned 62 on Friday, December 17. It was on December 17, 1959 that the General Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces was formed and the post of Commander-in-Chief of the missile forces was established.

Oleg Glazunov, commander of the Vladimir Missile Army, said that from February next year, the Vologda Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Tver Region will begin to be re-equipped with a mobile ground-based Yars missile system. All preparatory work for this has been carried out in the compound.