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Dmitry Rogozin, the General Director of Roscosmos, responded on Facebook to the owner of the Kazakh Rocket and Space Company Baikonur, Dauren Musa, who introduced himself as the owner of an almost ready-made flight model of the Soviet reusable Buran spacecraft, RIA Novosti reports.

The third and fourth missions to deliver people to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Crew Dragon spacecraft will send American, European and Japanese astronauts, as well as another unnamed crew member, to Earth orbit, NASA reports.

The launch was the 388th for the Long March series rockets

China on Thursday successfully launched the Zhongxing-9B satellite from the Xichang Cosmodrome in the southwestern province of Sichuan. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

The specialists of the enterprise visited the Baikonur cosmodrome only for the purpose of assessing the technical condition of the structures in which the spacecraft is located

The Molniya Scientific and Production Enterprise (NPO) visited Baikonur in order to assess the condition of the technical structure in which the Buran flight sample is stored, the enterprise has no plans to return the spacecraft to Russia. This was reported to TASS on Thursday in the press service of the NGO.

The Buran orbiter, located in Kazakhstan, has not yet lost its relevance. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, September 9, by Mikhail Kornienko, a pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, hero of Russia, to Izvestia.

In addition, the astronauts need to complete the operations for the final connection of the Ethernet cable to the "Science", connect the interfaces of the MLM module and the "Star", install several cables and mount the installation platform.

The corresponding draft note of the Russian Foreign Ministry suggests the extension of the agreement on duty-free import of "space" goods for a period of five years until 2026

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Foreign Ministry on behalf of the government to exchange notes with the United States on the extension of the duty-free import agreement for goods transported within the framework of Russian-American cooperation in the field of space exploration. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The flight will be the fourth

The next - already the fourth-mission to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Crew Dragon spacecraft is planned no earlier than April 15, 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration on its website.

The cause of the accident of the American-Ukrainian Alpha rocket was the premature stop of one of the four engines of the first stage, which was accompanied by the closing of valves in the fuel lines, the American portal reports Space.com, referring to the statement of representatives of the company Firefly.

One of the main problems that the participants of the first lunar missions will face is the search and extraction of fresh water. NASA studies of recent years, in particular the Lunar Prospector, LCROSS and SOFIA missions, have confirmed the presence of a large amount of ice at the satellite's poles. However, before getting water from it, it must be extracted from the lunar soil – regolith.

They want to launch the James Webb Space Telescope on December 18. Before that, the start was repeatedly postponed-including due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This hyperspectral satellite will be used for environmental monitoring projects

China successfully launched the Gaofen-5-02 optical remote sensing satellite into orbit on Tuesday. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The second copy of the RD-171MV engine, designed for the Soyuz-5 rocket, has successfully passed fire tests, Roscosmos reported.

The state Corporation plans to establish cooperation with existing regional centers and states that are interested in building up human potential in the space industry.

Communicating with followers on Twitter, Musk said that the transition to laser communication will not only speed up data transmission, but also allow the company to abandon ground-based base stations.

Virgin Galactic has announced the composition of the first commercial crew of the Unity suborbital spacecraft. The flight of the device is scheduled for the end of September-beginning of October, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The mission included Air Force servicemen Walter Villadei and Angelo Landolfi. The researcher Pantaleone Carlucci will fly on board the ship. The crew will include a representative of the company Beth Moses. Earlier, Virgin Galactic announced the sale of tickets. The price of one seat on the ship starts from $450 thousand.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

According to the head of Roscosmos, a branch of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at the cosmodrome will appear for the first flight of the Orel spacecraft with a crew-by 2025

New houses in the Tsiolkovsky district, which is located next to the Vostochny cosmodrome, will soon be transferred to the cosmodrome. This was announced on Monday by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The State Commission recommended that the Arktika-M system with the spacecraft of the same name be put into operation

Flight tests of the hydrometeorological satellite "Arctic-M" have been completed, it is recommended to put the device into operation. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Specialists of the Molniya Research and Production Association are preparing to return the Buran spacecraft to Russia. Representatives of the company that developed the ship visited the Baikonur cosmodrome to inspect the infrastructure and the orbiter itself, according to the official website of the NGO Molniya.