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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of his own space company Privateer Space. "A private space company, Privateer Space, unlike any other, is being created," Wozniak wrote on Twitter.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launched into orbit on Tuesday with 51 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX said.

With the available funding, it is impossible to increase the volume of research in low-Earth orbit, said Alexander Derechin, Deputy General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, speaking at the international Gagarin Conference, TASS reports.

Virgin Galactic, a company controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has faced new problems, SpaceNews reports.

According to the deputy general director of the corporation Alexander Derechin, now Russia is at the stage of research when their results can be applied in various fields

The number of studies in low-Earth orbit cannot be increased with the same budget that we have now. This was stated by Alexander Derechin, Deputy General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia.

The private space company Virgin Galactic found another reason to worry and postpone the next flight of a suborbital spaceplane with tourists. One of the equipment suppliers reported a potential defect in one of the executive mechanisms of the control bodies.

According to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy General Director of the state corporation, during the implementation of international projects, it is necessary to find a balance between competition and cooperation, between national benefits and world progress.

As the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation noted, Moscow stands for constructive and equal cooperation in the space sphere

Russia calls for the launch of negotiations on the development of an international instrument prohibiting the deployment of any types of weapons in outer space.

NASA management expects to extend the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 10 years. This was stated on September 13 during the international Gagarin Conference by the head of the NASA manned flight program, Kathy Luders.

These experiments began in 2003

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will continue to conduct experiments on growing protein crystals on the International Space Station (ISS) together with Roscosmos until 2024. This was announced on Monday by Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president of JAXA.

It lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes

Japanese astronauts Akihiko Hoshide and Frenchman Tom Pesquet returned to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday after almost seven hours of work in outer space. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Specialists of the NASA research Center in Langley, Virginia have completed tests of the external Vision system XVS (eXternal Vision System) with a 4K video screen, which will replace the front glass of the cockpit of an experimental supersonic aircraft built using the so – called "quiet supersonic technology"-X-59 QueSST.

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised by 750 meters in preparation for the arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft and the return of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to Earth, Roscosmos reported.

The project was presented to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin

Roscosmos is considering the appearance of the terminal for the Vostochny cosmodrome, which was created by Crocus JSC (the general contractor for construction works). This was reported to TASS in the state corporation.

Kuiper Systems, a subsidiary Amazon.com, in an appeal to the US Federal Communications Commission, sharply commented on the actions of SpaceX, accusing it of violating and ignoring general rules. This is written by Bloomberg.

The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1b " from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense told RIA Novosti.

According to a source in the rocket and space industry, a design that could work in operating rooms is currently being developed

JSC "Information Satellite Systems" named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev " (part of Roscosmos) with partners is developing a medical complex of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer patients. The first samples will be ready in two years, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS.

The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be increased by 750 m before the arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with a crew of cinematographers to shoot the first feature film in space. This was told to RIA Novosti by a representative of the press service of Roscosmos on Saturday, September 11.

During the meeting held by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine-Minister for Strategic Industries Oleg Urusky with the participation of the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SCAU) Vladimir Taftay, held at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (KB), it was confirmed that work on the Sich — 2-30 Earth remote sensing satellite is proceeding in accordance with the previously approved schedule, Defense Express reports.