Now people with fractures and poor eyesight can fly into space

The medical requirements imposed on participants of short-term space flights have greatly decreased in recent years, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

Filming should be completed by the end of 2022

Channel One will repair part of the premises of the Cosmonaut Training Center, where the filming of the film "The Challenge" will take place. This was stated on Friday by the executive producer of the project "Challenge" Olga Danova.

The NEBO 25 suborbital carrier was launched in Russia for the first time. Femtosatellites were placed on its board. During the tests, the engineers collected all the necessary information about the state of the carrier.

The purpose of the experiment is to check how many tasks can be completed after landing on another planet

One of the space crews who returned to earth is planned to be left at the landing site for several days to practice landing on another planet, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

According to Sergey Medvedev, chief designer of radio engineering systems of mutual measurements of the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments, they are also creating a fundamentally new system for the rendezvous and docking of spacecraft.

Russian satellite Kosmos-2519 burned down

The Russian spacecraft Kosmos-2519, from which the inspector satellite disconnected in 2017, burned up in the atmosphere. This is reported by TASS, referring to the data of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

According to Dmitry Loskutov, CEO of Glavkosmos, a total of seven launches are planned for next year

The first launch of British OneWeb communications satellites in 2022 is scheduled to take place in February from the Guiana Space Center (Kourou Cosmodrome). This was reported to TASS by the General Director of Glavkosmos JSC (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

The Ariane V heavy rocket on Saturday launched the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion into orbit to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, the Arianespace carrier development company said.

The long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope orbital infrared Observatory took place. It is considered as a replacement for the Hubble telescope, launched into orbit in 1990.

The James Webb telescope successfully corrected the course to the second Lagrange point

The most expensive James Webb telescope ("James Webb"), launched into space the day before, successfully made the first course correction. This was reported by NASA.

The French President stressed that he was filled with a sense of pride

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope into space will forever remain one of the key events in the history of space exploration.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that 2021 was a breakthrough year for many projects that could not be launched in recent years

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, congratulated the specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), who jointly developed the James Webb telescope, on the successful launch of the device. The corresponding message was published by Strugovets on Saturday on his Facebook page.

SpaceNews: SpaceX surpasses all countries of the world in the number of launches, except China

American SpaceX surpasses all countries of the world in the number of launches, except China, SpaceNews says in the publication "SpaceX against the world", dedicated to the prospects of the company of businessman and engineer Elon Musk.

SpaceNews: In December, SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket for the hundredth time

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after launching in December with the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) made its hundredth landing, SpaceNews reports.

The Xinhua News Agency noted that this is the 403rd launch using a carrier rocket of the Great Trek series

China launched a new Earth remote sensing satellite, Ziyuan-1 02E, into orbit on Sunday. The launch, Xinhua news agency reports, was carried out at 11:11 Beijing time (06:11 Moscow time) from the Taiyuan cosmodrome in Shanxi Province (Northern China) using the Changzheng-4-xi carrier rocket ("Great Trek - 4").

Hainan and Sichuan account for 45% of all Chinese launches

Hainan, together with the southwestern province of Sichuan, brought the total number of launches of the Changzheng series launch vehicles to 180 times in 2021 (out of a total of 402 launches carried out in China). This was reported by the Chinese Aerospace Research Academy (CAECC).

According to the delivery plan of the main samples of VIVT, in 2021, three new and three upgraded radar stations (radars) "Sky" and "Casta" entered service with the radio engineering troops of the Central Military District.

Russia is developing a portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS) with a missile that has no analogues in the world, said the head of the military air defense (air defense) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov.

The Parties are creating a joint regional air defense system, which is an integral part of the joint air defense system of the CIS member states

The Federation Council at a meeting on Friday ratified the agreement between Russia and Tajikistan on the creation of a joint air defense system.

In 2022, work will be completed on a new version of the Pantsir-SM-SV air defense cannon-missile system for the Ground Forces and Airborne Forces. It will have a tracked chassis and an enlarged kill zone.