Russian cosmonauts will make a record number of spacewalks in 2022
Russian cosmonauts may set a record next year for the number of spacewalks. They will have to leave the International Space Station (ISS) nine times, according to the flight program available to RIA Novosti.
The ISS orbit was successfully adjusted on the eve of the arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft
Its height decreased by 1.2 km
The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was lowered in connection with the upcoming arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with a movie crew on October 5 and further undocking for sending the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to Earth. This is stated in a message on the Roscosmos website.
Roscosmos will create a company to provide commercial services on the ISS
The state Corporation Roscosmos plans to create an operator to provide commercial experiments on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), follows from the data of the public procurement portal.
Space Adventures has found customers who are ready to fly to the ISS and go into outer space
The company said that the flight is planned for 2023 or 2024
The Space Adventures company is negotiating with potential space tourists who are ready to fly to the ISS on the Soyuz and go into outer space. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the company's representative office in Russia, Sergey Kostenko.
A space tourist preferred the Soyuz to Elon Musk's ship because of its reliability
One of the potential space tourists doubted the reliability of Elon Musk's ship and preferred to fly into space on the Russian Soyuz . This is reported by RIA Novosti.
The cost of a space tourist flight on the Soyuz is about $50 million
According to the company Space Adventures, a space tourist who is the first among non-professional participants of the flight to go into outer space will pay several million dollars more.
Space Adventures is thinking of offering space tourists a flyby of the Moon
According to the representative of the company Sergey Kostenko, this is a difficult issue that will require further development of the ship
The company Space Adventures, which promotes space tourism on the Russian "Soyuz", plans to offer customers a flyby of the Moon. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the company's representative office in Russia, Sergey Kostenko.
The production of the first satellite of the Skif system has begun in Russia
The production of the first satellite of the new Russian space group "Skif" for providing broadband Internet access has begun. This is stated on September 24 on the channel of the satellite-building enterprise "Information satellite Systems" named after Reshetnev " in YouTube.
Rogozin praised Russia's launch of a competitor to Starlink and OneWeb
The launch of the first satellite of the Skif system will allow Russia to consolidate its orbital position. Thus, the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, appreciated the importance of launching the Skif-D spacecraft on Twitter.
Rogozin: the launch of Skif will allow the Russian Federation to create a full-fledged broadband Internet system
The Skif spacecraft are being developed within the framework of the Sphere program
The launch of the Skif spacecraft will allow creating a full-fledged broadband Internet access system in Russia in the future. This was announced on Friday on Twitter by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
A new batch of British OneWeb satellites has been delivered to Russia for launch in October
A batch of 36 British OneWeb communication satellites has arrived in Russia, Roscosmos announced on Saturday. "A new batch of 36 OneWeb spacecraft has been delivered to Ignatievo Airport (Blagoveshchensk) by An-124-100 aircraft," the state corporation said, noting that they will be transported to the Vostochny cosmodrome during the day.
Starlink will replace GPS and GLONASS
The Starlink global Internet system can be used as a replacement for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), according to the Ohio State University, citing a study aimed at publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
The second attempt of the Starliner to reach the ISS will be postponed to 2022
The Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission, which involves the second test attempt of the Starliner spacecraft without a crew to reach the International Space Station (ISS), is unlikely to take place this year, reports SpaceNews a statement by Katie Leaders, who recently headed the NASA Space Operations Directorate.
The first fully commercial crew will go to the ISS in February 2022 - NASA
The launch of a spacecraft with the first fully commercial crew of Axiom Space as part of the Axiom-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for February 21, 2022, Kathy Leaders, head of the manned flight program of the National Aeronautics and Space Research Agency (NASA), said on Twitter on Friday.
The dismissed employee revealed the problems of Virgin Galactic
The dismissed director of flight tests of Virgin Galactic, Mark Stuckey, revealed the company's problems. According to him, the pilot's error, and not a strong wind, led to the deviation from the original course of the Unity suborbital spacecraft, on board of which was the British billionaire Richard Branson, writes Parabolic Arc.
NASA transfers work to the Box cloud service
The government organization NASA, following a number of other American federal structures, officially entrusted its documents and communication systems to Box. Cloud technologies and storage will be used to process almost all the agency's working documentation. This was done primarily to ensure reliable remote work of 18,000 employees scattered throughout the United States.
In Russia, they told about US strikes from space
In Russia, they told about the work on the means of space attack in the United States. The United States is practicing the use of orbiters that can deliver covert strikes from space. This was stated by the general director of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, Yan Novikov, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
Russia will modernize three stations of the SPRN system until 2028
According to the modernization plan, first of all, noise immunity will be strengthened at the stations, as well as the energy supply system will be improved
Three radar stations of the Voronezh series, which are part of the missile attack warning System (SPRN), are planned to be upgraded by 2028. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the interstate joint-stock corporation (IAC) "Vimpel".
Why are the Ground Forces equipped with the S-300V4 air defense system
An exercise was held in the anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Southern Military District stationed in the Krasnodar Territory, during which the calculations of the S-300V4 air defense systems successfully prevented a massive attack by a simulated enemy on one of our army facilities. The press service of the Southern Military District reported that the military carried out electronic launches, destroying targets in the sky that denote cruise missiles.
In the United States, the S-400 tests were evaluated
In September, Russian troops conducted live-fire exercises. As part of the maneuvers at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region, calculations of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) were involved. In the United States, the tests of the Russian system were evaluated. The National Interest magazine published the opinion of military expert Peter Suchiu about the Russian S-400 complex.
