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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.

Roscosmos reported that it will move away from the ISS at a distance of up to 185 km

The Progress MS-17 cargo ship will be reconnected from the Search module to the Science module. He will spend 29 hours in an autonomous flight, Roscosmos said in a statement released on Thursday.

The robot can detect and intercept violators, as well as counter terrorist attacks and fight drones

The General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin showed a video of patrolling the territory of the Vostochny cosmodrome by the Marker robot.

Deep Blue Aerospace has tested a prototype of its promising reusable Nebula-M1 rocket. The device reached a height of 100 meters and successfully returned back.

As part of the NS-18 mission, Blue Origin conducted the second launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with people on board. The 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner takes part in the mission. The other three tourists are Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.

European partners are considering a proposal from ROSCOSMOS to create the necessary infrastructure for manned launches of the Russian sOyuz-2 rocket from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, negotiations are underway, Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti.

ROSCOSMOS continues a series of trouble-free rocket launches for the third year in a row, which is an absolute record in Russian history. During this time, 67 successful launches of space rockets manufactured at the enterprises of the state corporation were carried out from the Baikonur, Vostochny, Guiana Space Center and Plesetsk military cosmodrome.

French President Emmanuel Macron called the development and use of micro- and mini-satellites another important task in the space sphere

French President Emmanuel Macron has set the country the task of creating reusable mini-carriers in the space sector by 2026. He said this on Tuesday, speaking at the Elysee Palace with the presentation of the new investment program "France-2030".

To launch three small satellites into low Earth orbit, the company used the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock gateway module, which arrived at the station in December 2020

The American aerospace company Nanoracks launched three research satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. This was announced by the company's press service on Twitter.

They want to launch the Venus-D spacecraft on November 11, 2029. Previously, only the approximate start date was reported. Among other things, ANGARA is considered as a possible carrier.

The Australian Space Agency has signed an agreement with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a rover for exploring the surface of the Moon, which is scheduled to be sent in 2026, NASA announced on its website on Tuesday.

Six "astronauts" will spend several weeks at a special station - until the end of October

An international experiment to simulate life and work on Mars has begun in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. It involves six "astronauts" from Israel, Austria, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal - five men and one woman. This is reported by the Times of Israel.

The patterns were applied to the rocket in connection with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod in 2021

Roscosmos has applied symbols in honor of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod and Khokhloma patterns to the sOyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, which will launch the Progress MS-18 transport cargo ship into orbit. This is stated in the message of the state corporation, distributed on Tuesday.

The Russian navigation satellite system GLONASS will switch from using the "Soviet" time UTS (SU) to the world coordinate time (UTC). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the presentation of the general designer of the system Sergey Karutin.

The maneuver was performed using the engines of the ZVEZDA module of the Russian segment of the ISS

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted in preparation for the launch of the sOyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft, on which two tourists from Japan will go into space in December. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

SpaceX's market capitalization has exceeded $100 billion. The value of the shares of the American company has reached $560 apiece, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Investors are interested in the projects of SpaceX founder Elon Musk. In recent years, the businessman has attracted billions of dollars.

The infantry Division of the South Korean Army and the Hanwha Defense company have begun testing the Intelligent UGV reconnaissance ground robot with a six-by-six wheel formula. According to Aju Daily, the military will check how the car functions in unmanned mode and with remote control.

Russian experts spoke about the technical characteristics of the IRKUT ultralight launch vehicle and the postponement of its first launch to 2024. The rocket will be produced in two versions, one of which will have a returnable first stage with a rotary wing. Depending on the version, the payload mass will be from 398 to 584 kilograms, according to an article published in the journal Space Engineering and Technology, which drew the attention of RIA Novosti.

The American company Pratt & Whitney will print a TJ-150 gas turbine engine on a 3D printer, which is equipped with small cruise missiles. According to FlightGlobal, the developers want to reduce the number of power plant parts from 400 to about six. As a result, the engine should become half cheaper.