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The capacity of the site in the Skolkovo Technopark is about 30 sets of spacecraft per year

The first site of serial assembly of satellite platforms of small spacecraft in the Russian Federation was launched by Sputnix in the Skolkovo Technopark. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group (part of AFK Sistema), which includes the company.

As specified, such measures are necessary for the development of space tourism

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin at a meeting of the industry operational headquarters instructed the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia to develop a plan to increase the production of Soyuz MS manned spacecraft. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of Roscosmos.

According to the theory, this ice should gradually evaporate, but for some reason it does not become less

The ExoMars-TGO probe found large reserves of ice in one of the deep canyons located in the center of the Mariner Martian valleys. The results of the study were published by the scientific journal Icarus.

Parachutes for the Russian-European ExoMars mission have been successfully tested in the United States. It is planned to launch it next year.

The customer, in particular, can submit an electronic application, specifying the parameters of his small spacecraft and the desired time of the mission

The service, which allows you to issue an electronic application for launching spacecraft as a passing load on Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, appeared on the Glavkosmos website. This is stated in the company's message, distributed on Wednesday.

In the near future, Roscosmos is waiting for a government decision on the issue of extending the work of the ISS, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The International Space Station (ISS), with proper technical support, is capable of operating until 2030. This was announced on Wednesday, December 15, by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Specialists find out the causes of the problems

The Chinese space company ExPace on Wednesday carried out an unsuccessful launch of two GeeSAT satellites. This was reported on Wednesday by the Xinhua news agency.

Six launches from Russian cosmodromes and one from the spaceport in French Guiana are planned to be carried out by Soyuz rockets under the OneWeb program in 2022, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Interfax.

It was supposed to take place on December 22, the next date is December 24

NASA postponed the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope scheduled for December 22 by at least two days due to technical reasons. As noted in the press release, "specialists are engaged in eliminating the problem on the transmission and reception line of information between the telescope and the launch vehicle."

Roscosmos is ready to conduct a dialogue with NASA on the harmonization of technical standards in lunar programs, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The key aspect of the Russian-Chinese project to create a lunar station is the equality of partners, its absence was the main reason for Russia's withdrawal from the American Gateway project.

In the summer of 2020, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, was interrogated as a witness in the case against his adviser Ivan Safronov, who is accused of treason. The information was confirmed on December 15 by lawyer Ivan Pavlov (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).

With proper technical support, the ISS is able to work until 2030, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The CEO of the corporation noted that "the relevance of the development is increasing in the field of financial technologies every day, especially taking into account the trends in the development of digital worlds or metaverses."

The enterprises of the integrated structure of the rocket engine building of Roscosmos are preparing engineering notes on options for building the second-stage engine of the carrier

The final deadlines for the completion of the preliminary design of the Amur methane launch vehicle with the return stage will be set after evaluating the options for the second stage engine. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) (part of Roscosmos).

For the first time in history, the American Parker probe "touched" the Sun. It flew through the upper layer of the Sun's atmosphere - the corona. This was announced on Tuesday, December 14, according to the NASA website.

The complex includes a satellite terminal, sensors, a computer and a solar panel

A hardware and software complex for monitoring high-voltage power transmission lines has been developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS in JSC "Satellite system "Messenger" (part of Roscosmos).

Tests of a 35-meter parachute designed to slow down at subsonic speed took place in Oregon on November 21 and December 3

Two second-stage parachutes, which are planned to be used during the descent to Mars of the equipment of the Russian-European Exomars mission, were successfully tested in late November - early December in the United States. This was reported on Tuesday by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Kazakhstan and Russia have carried out all domestic procedures for the Gagarin Launch modernization project, but the UAE is delaying the process, Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Bagdat Musin said.