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Roscosmos has ordered engines for a new reusable rocket
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.
The results of the SIRIUS-2021 experiment will be extended to the cosmonaut training system
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.
The SIRIUS-2021 crew will conduct more than 70 experiments during the mission
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 mascot of SIRIUS-2021 was an emblem with the names of all 12 applicants to the crew
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.
The Progress MS-17 spacecraft will take more than a ton of garbage from the ISS
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 include a Belarusian cosmonaut in an expedition to the ISS - Putin
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.
The ESA representative considers the SIRIUS-21 experiment to be part of the preparation for the flight of a European astronaut to the moon
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 ate the first harvest of pepper grown on the ISS
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 final launch dates of the Russian mission to the moon will be determined in the spring of 2022
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.
GICC named after G.S.Titov held the XXV Interdepartmental Conference on Space Systems and Complexes
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.
China has launched a group of Earth remote sensing satellites into orbit
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.
A new development plan is being prepared for the Votkinsk plant
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.
The date of the first spacewalk in 2022 under the Russian program has been named
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 first manned launch of the Soyuz in 2022 is scheduled for March 18
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.
NASA has approved the CubIXSS satellite project for solar research
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.
Curiosity has found organic matter on Mars again
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 UN General Assembly Committee approved three Russian resolutions on outer space
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.
The launch of Crew 3 was postponed due to the health condition of a crew member
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.
Most of the Soyuz rocket launches under the OneWeb program in 2022 will take place from Baikonur
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.
The medical commission recognized the crew with Japanese tourists as fit to fly into space
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.
