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Russian specialists should create a prototype of the Kryl-SV at the end of next year. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos and NASA will discuss the issue of cross-flights of their cosmonauts and astronauts on Soyuz MS and Crew Dragon spacecraft, TASS reports, referring to the statement of the CEO of the Russian state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The state corporation previously reported that in 2019-2020, in particular, the economy was affected by trouble-free launches

Roscosmos was able to save 800 million rubles of the federal budget thanks to the revision of the insurance activity processes. This was announced on Tuesday by Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for Economics and Finance, during the plenary session of the Marathon of Innovators.

The company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, together with Sierra Space, will build their commercial space station in low Earth orbit by 2025-2030, according to the project's website.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been put into safe mode due to problems with internal communication, NASA announced on Twitter on Tuesday.

Representative of the Russian Mission to the UN Gloria Agaronova supported "a comprehensive discussion of the topic of exploration and use of space resources within the framework of the General Assembly"

Russia proceeds from the fact that the principles and norms of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty are fully applicable to the resources of the Moon and other celestial bodies.

At the moment, a new multifunctional laboratory module "Science" has not been drawn in the simulator, but its model will appear in the near future, said Dmitry Akhmedov, a leading engineer at RSC Energia.

The Odyssey Virtual Reality System Developed by the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia (part of Roscosmos), it will be used for spacewalk training from November. This was reported on October 26 by TASS with reference to the leading engineer of Energia Dmitry Akhmedov.

The Michibiki spacecraft should replace the very first satellite from a similar series, launched into orbit back in 2010

The Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on Tuesday launched the H-2A launch vehicle with a new satellite for the global positioning system. A live broadcast of the launch from the Tanegashima cosmodrome in southwestern Kagoshima Prefecture was conducted on the corporation's website.

The station should be operational between 2025 and 2030

American companies Blue Origin and Sierra Space have announced plans to build a commercial space station. The corresponding statement was posted on the companies' website on Monday.

The cargo ship was in free flight for more than a day, moving away from the station by almost 200 km and getting closer again

The docking node of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" on the ISS is ready to receive the new node module "Berth". This was announced on Monday by cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, who is now on board the station.

Russia plans to launch a Space Monitoring System (SCCP) into space, the development of an appropriate satellite constellation is underway, the general designer of the SCCP (IAC Vimpel Corporation, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region) said in an interview with Interfax Vitaly Goryuchkin.

Chinese scientists have developed a method for secretly disabling spacecraft. To do this, it is planned to place small explosive charges in the nozzles of their engines. The consequences of triggering these bombs will look like malfunctions of the engines themselves, according to an article published by Professor Sun Yongzhong from the Polytechnic Institute of Defense Industry. Excerpts of the work are cited by the South China Morning Post.

The representative of the Cosmonaut Training Center explained that the kit was created in preparation for the experiment on putting an anthropomorphic robot into orbit

The Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) for the first time abroad presented at the Roscosmos stand at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai a means for preparing astronauts to control an anthropomorphic robot.

Visitors can use virtual glasses and special manipulators to imagine themselves as an astronaut who went into outer space

The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia (part of Roscosmos) presented at the Roscosmos stand at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai the Odyssey virtual reality system, with which visitors have the opportunity to feel like an astronaut working in outer space on the ISS.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the topic of cross-flights may be raised during negotiations with NASA

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, expressed the opinion that the Crew Dragon ships of Elon Musk's SpaceX company have gained enough experience so that Russian cosmonauts can fly on them as part of cross-flights.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin noted that the technology used by SpaceX is not suitable for Russia

A prototype of the reusable cruise stage of the Krylo-SV light-class rocket will be created at the end of 2022, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday at a press conference at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the "Sphere" will include communication groups "Yamal", "Express-RV", "Express", "Skif" and "IoT Marathon"

The Sphere program will include five satellite groupings providing telecom services, and five more - surveillance. This was announced on Monday by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos will present an exposition at the congress, where visitors will see a new model of the Nauka module, a model of the Zeus orbital complex and the TEM transport and energy module

TASS, October 25. The International Astronautical Congress opens on October 25 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the event is being held in an Arab country for the first time. Roscosmos will present its exposition at the congress, where visitors will be able to see a new model of the multifunctional laboratory module "Science", a model of the orbital complex "Zeus" and the transport and energy module "TEM".

China has the opportunity to quietly disable enemy satellites. October 23, portal scmp.com He reported that Hunan Defense Polytechnic Institute has developed a new type of space weapon.