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Roscosmos to develop new spacecraft for new station - Rogozin
Roscosmos will develop a new manned and spacecraft for the new orbital station, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said.
The ISS has acquired a "Berth"
Russia has completed the assembly of its segment of the International Space Station. Yesterday, on November 26, the press services of Roscosmos and NASA announced the successful docking of the Berth module to the ISS.
Roscosmos has started implementing the Sphere program
Roscosmos has started the creation of the Sphere satellite system, said Alexander Bloshenko, Executive Director of the State Corporation for Science.
The global space market in 2020 decreased by 0.3%
This trend is associated with the coronavirus pandemic, experts say
The global space market showed a decline in 2020. This is stated in the presentation of Alexey Pivkin, Deputy Director General for Strategic Development of the main economic research organization of the rocket and space industry of Agat Organization JSC (part of Roscosmos).
Deputy Head of Radiophysics Alexander Kuzin: six Sula radars will find all space debris around the Earth
A total of six radar stations (radars) monitoring space objects "Sula" is enough to detect and monitor all space debris around the Earth.
Rogozin called the future nodal modules "joints" of the Russian orbital station
The head of Roscosmos noted that the architecture of the Berth will be different from the ISS
The Berth node module will become a prototype of similar modules for the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), which will be the "joints" of its space body. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin at the Mission Control Center (MCC).
Rogozin: foreign spaceships will be able to dock to the "Berth" on the ISS in the future
According to the CEO of Roscosmos, after the docking of the Berth, the completion of the formation of the Russian segment of the ISS is a fait accompli
NASA and Roscosmos have begun negotiations on the harmonization of technical standards not only for Crew Dragon to the Russian module, but for Russian ships to the American segment. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin at the Mission Control Center (MCC).
Roscosmos will begin preliminary design of ROSS at its own expense
According to the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin, the agreement on the project will not be related to specific parameters of financing the work, but with a fundamental decision on their deployment
Roscosmos is ready to start work on the preliminary design of the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) with compensation in 2023. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin at the Mission Control Center (MCC).
The Berth node module docked with the ISS
The docking took place in automatic mode under the supervision of specialists of the Mission Control Center
The Berth node module as part of the Progress M-UM spacecraft, launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome, moored to the docking node of the multipurpose laboratory module Nauka, a TASS correspondent reports from the Mission Control Center (MCC, part of Roscosmos).
Russia has completed the formation of its ISS - Rogozin segment
The formation of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) has been completed, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos. "The fact of the completion of the formation of the Russian segment of the ISS - this fact has already happened," Rogozin told reporters on Friday.
"Progress" with "Berth" docked to the ISS
The Progress M-UM spacecraft module with the Berth node module has docked to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos reports.
Progress MS-17 spacecraft successfully submerged in the Pacific Ocean
Roscosmos indicated that the ship's mission has now ended
The Progress MS-17 spacecraft has been successfully de-orbited and sunk in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean. This was announced on Thursday on Twitter by the state corporation "Roscosmos".
The names of the modules of the new Russian orbital station are revealed
Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos, revealed on his Twitter account the planned names of the new modules of the promising Russian orbital service station (ROSS). According to him, they will be named after Russian regions.
The head of NASA plans to visit Russia and meet with Rogozin
Bill Nelson did not announce the date of the planned trip
The head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Bill Nelson intends to come to Moscow and hold a meeting with the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. He said this in an interview with SpaceNews portal published on Wednesday.
NASA said that the Russian test of anti-satellite weapons does not affect cooperation on the ISS
The department continues to discuss with Roscosmos both the future of the station in the long term and short-term agreements, said the head of NASA Bill Nelson
Russia's test of anti-satellite weapons will not have a negative impact on the prospects for further US-Russian cooperation on the International Space Station (ISS).
Roscosmos called the start date of cross-flights from the United States to the ISS
Sergey Krikalev, Executive Director of Roscosmos for manned Space Programs, said that flights of astronauts on Crew Dragon ships and American astronauts on Soyuz will begin no earlier than the autumn of 2022.
The timing of the start of cross-flights of Russia and the United States has been named
The cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts on the US Crew Dragon ships and American astronauts on the Soyuz will begin no earlier than the autumn of 2022, the executive director of Roscosmos for manned programs Sergey Krikalev said in an interview with TASS.
Roscosmos plans to complete the creation of the Earth Remote Sensing Center by 2025
Work is already underway, the state corporation reported
Roscosmos plans to complete the creation of the National Center for Remote Sensing of the Earth by 2025. This was stated on Thursday by the deputy director of the Department of Navigation space Systems of Roscosmos Valery Zaichko.
By 2025, the Russian orbital grouping of Earth observation satellites will increase to 28
The orbital grouping of civil Earth observation satellites currently has 12 vehicles
The Russian orbital grouping of Earth remote sensing satellites (remote sensing) should increase to 28 spacecraft by 2025. This was stated on Thursday by the head of the Scientific Center for Operational Monitoring of the Earth JSC "Russian Space Systems" (RCS) Alexander Rebri.
NASA has planned to send a cargo ship to the ISS on December 21
Docking with the ISS will take place automatically on December 22
The next launch of SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship to replenish supplies at the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for December 21. This was announced on Wednesday on its website by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
