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The launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with two tourists on board is scheduled for December 8

The Main Medical Commission has decided that cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano are ready to make a space flight for 12 days. This is stated in the message of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC), distributed on Tuesday.

Amazon has announced the launch date of the first prototypes of spacecraft of the Kuiper global Internet system, which will become a competitor to Starlink. According to ArsTechnica, referring to the application of the US Federal Communications Commission, the KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 satellites should be launched in the fourth quarter of next year.

A source in the rocket and space industry previously told TASS that the launch of OneWeb satellites is scheduled for December 27

The next launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for the end of the year. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

These are resolutions on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, on the non-deployment of weapons in outer space by the first, as well as on measures to ensure transparency and confidence-building in space activities.

Scientists hope that thanks to this they will be able to find traces of life on the Red Planet

According to the results of the study of soil samples from the so-called Bagnold dunes, which was conducted by the Curiosity rover, scientists concluded that there are large reserves of organic matter on the surface of Mars. This is the second alleged "deposit" of organic matter on the Red Planet. A description of the study was published by the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.

The first launch of the carrier with OneWeb satellites in 2022 is scheduled for January 27

Most of the launches of British OneWeb communications satellites in 2022 will be carried out from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

Jeffrey Eberhardt claims that these countries are deploying technology in space and intend to transfer future conflicts to outer space

Jeffrey Eberhardt, the US President's Special Envoy for nuclear nonproliferation, claims that Russia and China are deploying technologies in space and intend to transfer future conflicts to outer space.

There were three Russians, two Americans and one representative of the UAE

Three citizens of the Russian Federation, two Americans and one representative of the UAE joined the crew of the SIRIUS-21 international isolation experiment, during which six volunteers will spend 240 days in isolation. This was reported to TASS on Monday in the press service of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the basis of which the experiment will be conducted.

Russia will vote against this document, Andrei Belousov assured

The draft British resolution on outer space at the UN suffers from serious shortcomings and does not take into account the fundamental Russian approaches. This was stated on Monday by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Office in Geneva, Andrei Belousov, speaking at the First Committee of the General Assembly of the World Organization.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed a concept following which bacteria delivered to Mars will be able to produce rocket fuel and liquid oxygen from the CO2 available there. The resulting fuel will be useful for refueling the spacecraft to return to Earth. Techcult has studied in detail the scientists' article in the journal Nature.

Is there a private cosmonautics in Russia and how soon will a Russian commercial rocket fly?

The correspondent of the magazine "Aerospace Sphere" talked about this with the CEO and founder of Success Rockets Oleg Mansurov. 

In the USA, the approach of one of the Russian spacecraft (number 40258 in the catalog of the North American Aerospace Defense Command) of the Luch series to the Intelsat 36 commercial satellite was shown on a computer model. The corresponding video was published by the American company COMSPOC on Vimeo.

As specified in Roscosmos, design and estimate documentation is currently being developed

Survey and measurement work will soon begin on the site of the Zenit-M complex, which will be upgraded into Baiterek. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

The threat of turning outer space into an arena of armed confrontation with catastrophic consequences has been increasing recently, said Andrei Belousov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva.

The parties also discussed cooperation in the field of remote sensing of the Earth from space and training of personnel for the space industry

Roscosmos and Zimbabwe's National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA) have signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on space. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

The satellite will be placed in an average circular orbit with a height of 8,070 km

The launch of the Skif-D satellite into a circular orbit with a height of 8,070 km is scheduled for the end of September 2022. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Sunday.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is going to carry out the first launch of the new Ariane 6 launch vehicle in the second half of 2022, according to data from the French developer Arianespace.

German astronaut Matthias Maurer will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on November 3 on a SpaceX spacecraft as part of the NASA program. A few months after his arrival, he decided to throw a party with his colleagues. Maurer shared the details of the event in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

It was originally planned that Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, who will go to the ISS on November 3 aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, will carry out work on the outer surface of the station on November 17

The spacewalk from the International Space Station of American astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron has been postponed for almost two weeks and will take place only at the end of November.

The Progress MS-19 space truck will make a record flight to the ISS in 2022. It will be part of the station for 370 days.