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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.

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 station will consist of an inflatable living module, a docking module, a propulsion compartment, a robotic manipulator and a laboratory

The first independent commercial space station can be created by 2027. The corresponding statement was published on Thursday on the website of the American corporation Lockheed Martin.

The Chinese Zhuzhong rover and the Tianwen-1 probe resumed their work on Mars after half a month of being in "sleep mode," the Chinese Lunar Program said in a statement.

The launch of a rocket with a payload model weighing 1.5 tons took place on October 21 at 10:00 Moscow time

The first South Korean Nuri launch vehicle (KSLV-II) was unable to launch a mock-up payload into orbit due to a malfunction of the third stage. This was announced by the Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technologies Im Hye Suk, KBS TV channel reported on Friday.

It became the first cargo ship to dock to the module

The Progress MS-17 cargo transport ship, which undocked from the Poisk small research module on Thursday night, docked at the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website.

According to the CEO of Roscosmos, first you need to find out what burned down, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin suggested finding out which device burned down in the sky over the United States, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation.

The preparation of astronauts for landing on the Moon was shown in Russia. The corresponding video was published on the YouTube channel of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, RIA Novosti reports.

Conducting manned launches of Soyuz MS spacecraft on medium-sized Soyuz-ST rockets from Kourou will not require modification of the carrier. Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC), called TASS the condition for launching with a crew from the cosmodrome in French Guiana.

Air Force (Air Force) The United States has planned to place an experimental nuclear reactor at the Eilson base in Alaska by 2027, The Drive reports.

The first unpiloted test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon orbit under the Artemis program is scheduled for February 2022, its head, NASA representative Mike Sarafin, said during a teleconference dedicated to the Artemis-1 mission.

The American company Blue Origin, which is a competitor to SpaceX, is considering participating in a competition of the US Department of Defense, which provides for the possibility of using spacecraft instead of aircraft to deliver military cargo around the planet, SpaceNews reports.

NASA has set the nearest launch date for the superheavy Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to the Moon on February 12, 2022, Spaceflight Now reports.

Damaged in the South China Sea, the Connecticut Seawolf-type nuclear submarine of the US Navy (Navy) was captured on a picture of the Planet Labs spacecraft. The corresponding photo was shown by the publication The Drive.

The American aerospace company SpaceX has conducted fire tests of a Raptor rocket engine designed to operate in the vacuum of space, ArsTechnica reports.

The Ariane-5 heavy launch vehicle of the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched two communications satellites into orbit on Sunday, the French operator Arianespace reported.

The launch was carried out using a CZ-3B rocket from the Xichang Cosmodrome in Sichuan Province

China on Sunday successfully launched the Shijian-21 satellite into orbit to test technologies for protecting spacecraft from debris in near-Earth space. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Chinese military researchers have created and tested a robotic device that places a small amount of explosives into the nozzle of a satellite engine and detonates it at the right time. According to the South China Morning Post, it can stay inside the satellite for a long time and disconnect from it if necessary.

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.

NASA Director Bill Nelson admitted the possibility of the existence of aliens. At the same time, he expressed the hope that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) do not appear as a result of the actions of some enemy on the Ground.