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Finnish woodworking company UPM announced the postponement of the launch into space of the world's first satellite made of wood WISA Woodsat for the first half of 2022. This was reported on Friday, October 15, on the company's website.

The Taikonauts entered the Tianhe module about three hours after the successful docking

Three Chinese cosmonauts from the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft entered the main module of the PRC orbital station on Saturday and began the first operations for its maintenance and operation. This was reported by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of China.

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was woken up by a siren on the night of October 16. The sound signal was given due to a malfunction in the control system of the Russian Zvezda module. This follows from the data of the negotiations broadcast by NASA on YouTube.

The rocket will be launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with Galileo spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for December 1, 2021. This was reported on Friday in Roscosmos.

Announcing the recent launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage of OneWeb satellites, Arianespace executive Director Stefan Israel "remembered" the contribution of the Russian side to the mission only after he was "congratulated" by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, RIA Novosti writes.

Richard Branson's company has pushed the start of commercial suborbital flights to the fourth quarter of next year. This is due to the refinement of equipment and new tests.

Virgin Galactic, controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has postponed commercial suborbital flights of the Unity spacecraft for the last quarter of 2022, according to the company's website.

A promising anti-space defense complex "Aerostat" is being developed in Russia. In the United States, they told about the Russian long-range missile defense system, which will be able to intercept targets in space. The assumption was made by analyst Bart Hendricks (Bart Hendrickx) in a material for the portal The Space Review.

The head of Roscosmos lives in one of three guest houses-dormitories, where the leadership of leading rocket and space companies is located

Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin conducted a "tour" of the cottage in which he lives and the workplace for the period of business trips to the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) promptly eliminated the loss of orientation of the International Space Station (ISS), which occurred during the testing of the engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, the rocket and Space Corporation Energia reported.

The engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, on which the cinema crew is due to return to Earth on October 17, did not turn off as expected during the test, but stopped working when they reached the fuel consumption limit. This was reported on Friday, October 15, at the American Mission Control Center (MCC), the negotiations are broadcast by NASA.

At the same time, the PRC does not exclude that such interaction between the two countries is theoretically quite feasible

The Chinese orbital station does not yet plan to exchange its telemetry data (flight parameters) with the Russian space communication centers. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Friday by the deputy head of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Lin Xiqiang.

The participants of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress, held in Hamburg (Germany), got acquainted with the unique experience of Russia in ensuring transport security, the press service of GLONASS JSC reports.

Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the cosmodrome

In 2022, Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome, their number will be the same as in 2021 - about five. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos is working on determining a new date for the launch

The spacecraft for the Luna-25 mission has been assembled and is being prepared for launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. Roscosmos is working on determining a new date, which has been postponed from May to July, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Thursday.

Thanks to this, it will be possible to learn more data about cosmic processes and the surface of the Moon

Russian physicists have studied the spectra of lunar neutrinos - ultralight fundamental particles that arise due to the interaction of cosmic rays with the surface of the Moon. Thanks to this, new methods of studying this satellite may appear. The results of the work were published by the scientific journal Physical Review D, the press service of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) briefly writes about it.

According to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, this will give additional energy and other operational advantages

Work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to the new naphthyl fuel will begin on Friday. This decision was made during a meeting of the State Commission on Thursday, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.

OneWeb satellites launched from the territory of Russia were put into orbit. 36 vehicles were delivered by the Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This is reported by the Telegram channel Zvezdanews with reference to the state corporation "Roscosmos".

Yusaku Maezawa added that the training in weightlessness made the strongest impression on him

Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa said that he admired the spacesuit produced by NPP Zvezda, but admitted that it was very hot to train in it.

Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected

Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.