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During the experiment, it is planned to test the technology of a "kinetic impact" on an asteroid

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The United States is preparing to test several systems to protect the Earth from asteroids. This was announced by the head of the NASA profile department, Lindley Johnson, on Thursday at a briefing on the upcoming launch of the DART probe (Double Asteroid Redirection Test).

European astronauts can start flying into space again on Russian ships after the conclusion of an agreement on cross-flights between Roscosmos and NASA, the official representative of the European Space Agency Rene Pichel told Interfax.

Modernization costs will exceed 2 billion rubles

The state Corporation Roscosmos plans to modernize simulators for training astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) for 2 billion rubles, it follows from the materials of the public procurement portal.

For the crew members of Shenzhou-13, this will be the first trip outside the ship

The crew members of the Chinese Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft in orbit are planning to make a spacewalk in the next few days. This was announced on Friday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The experiment starts on November 4 in Moscow

The results obtained during the SIRIUS-2021 isolation experiment, which starts on Thursday, will be implemented into the cosmonaut training system at the CPC. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by Vladimir Dubinin, Deputy head of the Gagarin Research Institute for Science and Development.

Sergey Ponomarev, Executive Director of the project, said that an operational and technical program aimed at increasing the realism of the mission is also planned

The crew members of the SIRIUS-2021 mission will conduct more than 70 experiments during 240 days of isolation. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by the executive director of the project Sergey Ponomarev.

The SIRIUS-2021 isolation experiment will start on November 4 in Moscow on the basis of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The emblem with the flags of the countries participating in the SIRIUS-2021 experiment, as well as the names of all 12 applicants for crew members, will become the mascot of the project participants. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the crew commander Oleg Blinov.

According to cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, one of the units being removed is the docking mechanism of a multi-purpose laboratory module, which was the first to touch the ISS during docking

More than a ton of spent equipment and household waste will be on board the Progress MS-17 cargo ship, which will be undocked from the ISS on November 25 before flooding. This was announced by Roscosmos cosmonaut Peter Dubrov on Thursday.

Russia is ready to send a Belarusian cosmonaut to the ISS in the near future, it is only necessary to agree on all the details, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Participation in the scientific work of the SIRIUS-21 experiment will allow the European Space Agency (ESA) to prepare its astronaut for a flight to the Moon, head of the ESA representative office in Russia Rene Pichel told Interfax.

NASA astronauts have grown and eaten chili peppers on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in history. This was announced by American Catherine MacArthur on her Twitter account.

The Institute of the TsNIIMash Space Agency has ordered turbojet engines for testing a reusable rocket demonstrator. Earlier, the timing of the creation of a prototype of the winged stage became known.

NASA has approved the project of a cubesat satellite for the study of the Sun in the X-ray range. It is expected that CubIXSS will be launched in 2024 and within a year will determine the parameters of plasma in the active regions and the corona of our star, according to the website of the Southwest Research Institute.

The Main Test Space Center held the XXV Interdepartmental Scientific and Practical Conference "Space Systems and Complexes: testing, management, application" at the site of the Patriot Space Center.

We are talking about January 19, astronauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules

The first spacewalk of Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled for January 19, the cosmonauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules, according to the Russian Cosmos magazine (the official publication of Roscosmos).

The undocking from the Rassvet module and the landing of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is scheduled for March 28

The first launch of the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft in 2022 is scheduled for March 18. This is reported in the magazine "Russian Cosmos" (the official publication of Roscosmos), published on Wednesday.

A new development plan is being developed for the Votkinsk Plant, one of the largest enterprises in Udmurtia. Possible options were discussed by the head of the republic Alexander Brechalov and the general designer of the corporation of the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering Yuri Solomonov.

This is the second group of vehicles of this series in orbit

China successfully launched a group of Yaogan-32 Earth remote sensing satellites into a given orbit on Wednesday. The launch, Xinhua news agency reports, was carried out at 15:43 Beijing time (10:43 Moscow time) using the Changzheng-2-Xi carrier rocket (CZ-2C, Long March-2C) from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in the northwestern province of Gansu.

The nearest date of dispatch from the point of view of ballistic requirements is May 25, said Igor Mitrofanov, Head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The final decision on the timing of the launch of the first mission to the Earth's natural satellite Luna-25 in the history of modern Russia will be made in March-April 2022. This was reported to TASS by the head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research (ICI) RAS Igor Mitrofanov.

The launch of the NASA and SpaceX Crew 3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed due to the health condition of one of the crew members. This is stated in a NASA statement, RIA Novosti reports.