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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.

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 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 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.

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. 

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.

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.

The Samara Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" has assembled the body of the Aist-2T satellite, which will have to create a 3D model of the Earth. This was announced on October 29 by the general director of the company Dmitry Baranov.

The RD-171MV power unit, known as the Tsar Engine, was sent for assembly as part of the first stage of the Russian promising Soyuz-5 rocket, which should replace the decommissioned Ukrainian Zenit-2 carrier. This was announced on Twitter by the CEO of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The launch of the Ukrainian satellite for remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" was postponed. In the United States, it was reported that the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was postponed to 2022. This is reported by the information and consulting agency Defense Express.

At the same time, the US Space Agency did not name the dates when they could take place

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Roscosmos may conduct joint training to prepare for cross-flights to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Friday at an online press conference by the head of the NASA manned flight program, Kathy Luders.

The US Vice President will visit the French capital on November 11-12

Strengthening cooperation in space will be one of the topics of the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to Paris on November 11-12. This is stated in a joint communique adopted on Friday following talks in Rome between French and American Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden.

The launch of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in normal mode, the recent powerful solar flare did not affect the plans. This was announced on October 29 by the head of the NASA manned program, Kathy Luders.

The M. N. Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope installed there has sensitive detectors for recording X-ray radiation

The developers of the Spektr-RG space observatory were able to register a stream of charged particles caused by solar flares in order to "reject" them in the future due to the negative impact on the detectors. This is stated in the message of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, distributed on Saturday.

In the assembly and test building of the Baikonur Cosmodrome site No. 31, the blocks of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle were unloaded, which will launch the Soyuz MS-20 transport manned spacecraft into near-Earth orbit in December, the state corporation Roscosmos reported on Saturday.

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.