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Bill Nelson believes there was a threat to the ISS

Tests of anti-satellite weapons, allegedly carried out by the Russian Federation, put the International Space Station (ISS) and the crew on it at risk. This opinion was expressed on Monday by the head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Bill Nelson in a statement published on the agency's website.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that Russia had not warned the United States about testing anti-satellite weapons. This was reported by the Politico portal on November 15.

The Pentagon named the target of an anti-satellite missile that Russia allegedly launched during tests. According to the Space Command of the US Armed Forces, an apparatus put into orbit by the Soviet Union was hit, TASS reports.

According to NASA, we are talking about the COSMOS 1408 satellite, which was put into orbit in 1982

The Pentagon claims that Russia has conducted tests of an anti-satellite missile, during which a device put into orbit by the Soviet Union was hit. Such a statement was distributed on Monday by the Space Command of the US Armed Forces.

Thus, the landing date named last week by the head of the department Bill Nelson in 2025, according to Paul Martin, does not look realistic

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will not be able to meet the original schedule for landing people on the Moon, and these deadlines will have to be moved from 2024 "for several years" ahead. This conclusion is contained in a report released on Monday by NASA Inspector General Paul Martin.

The main crew of the spacecraft includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

The first day of comprehensive examination training was held at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC). This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, examining the intermediate chamber of the Zvezda module in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), discovered a possible place of air leakage. This is on Monday, November 15, follows from his talks with the Mission Control Center, broadcast by NASA.

This time, the astronauts did not hide in the ships, but carried out work on the station in the usual mode

The ISS passed near the debris field of space debris for the third time in a day without receiving any damage. This was announced by a NASA specialist in negotiations with astronauts at the station.

Representatives of the space agencies of Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan signed a joint statement of intent on the modernization of the Gagarin Launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Roscosmos reported.

Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov reported that "while the elements of equipment are being installed in the module"

Experiments in the multipurpose laboratory module "Science", which was docked to the International Space Station in the summer, may begin in the near future. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who is now on board the station.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" made its fifteenth flight in the atmosphere of the Red Planet, which became the first full-fledged flight at very high propeller speeds. The drone flew 406 meters in a little over two minutes and received a number of color images of the surrounding area, according to NASA Twitter.

The project of the Russian space telescope "Millimetron", which provides for the launch of the astrophysical observatory "Spectrum-M", will begin to be implemented not in 2029, but a year later. This was stated by the acting head of the FIAN Astrocosmic Center Sergey Likhachev.

It is assumed that they will withstand high and low temperatures, vibrations during removal, exposure to vacuum, ionizing radiation

Roscosmos has signed a contract with JSC Composite (part of the state corporation) to develop the latest materials for new rocket technology, according to the public procurement portal.

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is working with Roscosmos to create robots to study the Moon, there is no development agreement yet, Academy President Alexander Sergeev told Interfax.

The Russian space telescope "Millimetron" will be 100 times cheaper than the American James Webb orbital laboratory, Deputy Director of the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences Larisa Likhacheva said at a meeting of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Space. Her statement is reported by RIA Novosti.

China is able to land taikonauts on the surface of the Moon in the period earlier than 2030, the technical adviser of the Chinese Academy of Space Technologies (CAST) said on the air of the Chinese Television Network Ye Peijian.

The development will also help to significantly increase the height of the parachute jump - up to almost 100 km

The Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos) has patented a suborbital spacecraft for flights of space tourists and high-altitude parachute jumps. This is stated in the patent for the invention distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

China plans to land Taikonauts on the surface of the moon earlier than 2030. This was told on the air of the Chinese Global Television Network by the technical adviser of the Chinese Academy of Space Technologies Ye Peijian.

According to the Kyodo agency, the relevant measures of the government of the country are associated with increased activity of Russia and China in the field of space

The Japanese authorities intend to create a second space task force of the Air Self-Defense Forces in the country in fiscal year 2022 (starting April 1, 2022). This was reported on Sunday by the Kyodo news agency.

It will be possible to get into space without resorting to rockets. Yesterday, November 11, the portal thedrive.com He reported that the American company SpinLaunch has successfully tested a centrifuge that will be able to send small satellites into orbit.