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In particular, the parties will discuss agreements on the implementation of the Baiterek project

The next meeting of the Kazakh-Russian intergovernmental commission on the Baikonur complex will be held in Nur-Sultan on December 13, where agreements on the creation of the Baiterek space rocket complex will be discussed. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin.

Yuri Urlichich, Deputy General Director for the Development of the orbital grouping and Promising Projects, also called on specialists to participate in the creation of laws in this area

Roscosmos invites the international community to come to a common understanding of these ecomonitoring systems. This was stated on Friday at the International Energy Forum in Moscow by Yuri Urlich, First Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and Promising projects.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, stated the need to protect against space threats

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, said it was necessary to create technologies to protect the planet from space threats. This is reported by Interfax.

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad will make her first flight in 2022

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad, Anna Kikina, was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity to carry out the first flight into space under the cross-flight program.

After the examination is completed, the project will be submitted to Roscosmos for approval

The preliminary design of the promising Russian Soyuz-5 launch vehicle has been developed. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC).

Their number is not specified

China on Friday, using a Long March-4B (CZ-4B, Changzheng-4B) carrier rocket, successfully launched a group of Shijian-6 05 (Shijian-6 05) satellites. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency.

Russia needs to launch about 20 microsatellites into space every year, said Ivan Uteshev, head of the Astronomy Department of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence

About 20 launches of microsatellites need to be carried out annually, and the program for launching such devices requires support on a long-term basis. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of Moscow, coach of the Russian national team in Astronomy and Astrophysics Ivan Uteshev at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with participants of the Congress of Young Scientists on Tuesday.

Crystals of proteins of the new coronavirus strain "Omicron" will grow on the International Space Station (ISS), said Yusef Hesuani, co-founder of 3D Bioprinting Solutions.

The Fund of photographs is integrated with other products within the framework of the Digital Earth project

Roscosmos State Corporation has launched a new Internet portal with a database of satellite images of the Earth's surface. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the corporation.

On Thursday, at a meeting with military attaches of foreign states, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, told how the country's aerospace defense is being improved.

In order to increase its capabilities and detect enemy missile attacks in a timely manner, another satellite of the Unified Space System was put into orbit.

According to the state corporation, the launch of 16 microsatellites will be carried out within the framework of the Space-Pi project

Roscosmos plans to launch about 20 microsatellites in 2022, including for leading Russian universities. This was reported on Thursday in the state corporation.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that all participants in space activities have postponed rocket launches

The launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Briz-M upper stage and the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft is postponed to a backup date. This was reported on Thursday in the Telegram channel of Roscosmos.

The launch was postponed to December 11

TASS, December 8. The American company Blue Origin postponed the launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with space tourists from December 9 to December 11 due to adverse weather conditions. The company announced this on its Twitter page on Wednesday.

The cost of registration of services for visiting the Vostochny cosmodrome is less than 10 thousand rubles for adult citizens of the Russian Federation, for a child - less than 5 thousand, Roscosmos reported.

The installation of such engines will reduce the lifetime of space debris

Tests of a plasma engine manufactured by a private company that will be able to hold the position of small spacecraft in orbit have begun in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

The United States has launched the IXPE X-ray telescope (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer). The cost of the mission is estimated at more than 180 million dollars.

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region is scheduled for December 23. This was announced on Thursday, December 9, by the administration of the Kargasoksky district of the Tomsk region.

The backup launch date was set for December 24

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for the evening of December 23. This is stated in the message of the administration of the Kargasok district of the Tomsk region.

The University is preparing a lunar mission, its modeling has already been carried out

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) has created a software package for the analysis and design of space missions on an order focused on import substitution. This was announced at the session of the Congress of Young Scientists on Thursday by the Dean of the Faculty of Space Research of Moscow State University Vasily Sazonov.

The wreckage of the Soviet satellite shot down on November 15 is under control, they do not threaten existing space objects, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said at a briefing to military attaches of foreign states on Thursday.