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Reducing the load on the production facilities of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia may affect the quality of Soyuz spacecraft. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the report of specialists of the scientific and production association (NGO) "Technomash" (part of the state corporation "Roscosmos").

The station crew conducted an environmental survey of the construction of Olympic facilities

The Olympic facilities around Sochi were built under the environmental supervision of astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told about this at a press conference in TASS.

Russian cosmonauts will have to wait at least a month for the opportunity to fly to the Moon because of the need to prepare the Vostochny cosmodrome for a new launch, according to a report by specialists of the rocket and space corporation Energia.

Experts also predict low reliability indicators of Angara missiles in the first years of operation

Reducing the load of RSC Energia's capacities can have an extremely negative impact on the reliability of the Soyuz manned spacecraft and Progress trucks, according to the theses of the report of experts from NPO Technomash (part of Roscosmos).

Negotiations on international participation in the project of a new Russian space station should begin in the near future, said Academician Lev Zeleny, scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the executive director of Roscosmos Sergey Krikalev, the launch of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" and the node module "Berth" does not mean the completion of the development of the ISS

The operation of the International Space Station (ISS) will last at least until 2027-2028. This was announced by the executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs Sergey Krikalev.

The camera was chosen as the first object to be restored, because failures in the operation of this device are rare

The team of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, restored the operation of one of its cameras after the entire telescope went into safe mode due to a loss of synchronization.

According to the chief project manager Mark Belakovsky, many countries have applied to Russia to participate in the one-year experiment, a number of contracts have already been signed

The SIRIUS international annual experiment simulating a flight into deep space is scheduled to begin at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in the first quarter of 2023. This was reported to TASS by SIRIUS project chief Manager, Head of the Department of IMBP RAS Mark Belakovsky.

The device must receive and transmit signals of an automatic identification system for tracking the movement of ships and monitoring activities at sea

Japan on Tuesday launched an Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is broadcasting the launch live.

On board the ship are US astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Pesquet, as well as Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

In August, China tested a hypersonic missile that circled the globe in a low orbit before taking aim at a pre-determined object. They say that the rocket missed the target by only 38 kilometers. 

According to a RIA Novosti source, the optimal day for launching the unmanned Luna-25 mission is July 23. Previously, May of next year was called as the planned start date.

Novy Kosmos will create small satellites

Anton Alekseev, the winner of one of the stages of the Leaders of Russia competition, has created a new private space company that will create small satellites. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the competition.

As reported in Roscosmos, the launch is planned to be carried out in 2022

The batch of three new domestic communications satellites "Messenger" is fully ready. This was reported on Monday in the press service of Roscosmos.

The cross-flights of American astronauts on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and Russians on SpaceX Dragon ships to the International Space Station (ISS) will solve the problem with the possible absence of US representatives on the station, Joel Montalbano, head of NASA's ISS program, said during a teleconference.

European Space Agency astronaut Tom Peske handed over command of the International Space Station (ISS) to Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, according to the Roscosmos website.

They worked out the steps to exit the main module of the Tianhe into the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft

Cosmonauts of the Chinese orbital station conducted emergency evacuation exercises in case of an unforeseen collision with an object. This was announced on Sunday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The taikonauts of the first manned mission on China's Shenzhou-12 national space station under construction have undergone a recovery course after spending three months in space and have adapted to Earth conditions again, the China Manned Flight Program Administration (CMSA) reported on Saturday.

NASA and the private company Intuitive Machines have announced that they have chosen a landing site for the Nova-C lander, which will go into space at the end of 2022. It will deliver a drilling rig and an experimental communication system from Nokia to the area near the Shackleton crater in the southern polar region of the Moon, according to NASA's website.

US Vice President Kamala Harris noted that the meeting of the interdepartmental National Space Council is scheduled for December 1

The US administration intends to highlight key areas of work in space, including in the military sphere, at a meeting of the relevant council next month. This was stated on Friday by US Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (Maryland).