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NASA to test Earth's protection from asteroids
The DART spacecraft will have to separate from the rocket and reach the Didymus-dImorph double asteroid in the fall of 2022, collide with the smaller of them - Dimorph, and change its orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will test the protection of the Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids for the first time.
NASA astronauts managed to grow pepper on the ISS
Scientists noted that the growth of vegetables on the ISS turned out to be less significant than those grown on earth
For the first time, US astronauts were able to grow peppers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of an experiment that began on July 12. This was announced on Tuesday by the Space Center. John F. Kennedy of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in his Twitter.
A planetoid from China spent 1,000 days on the moon
On September 29, 2021, exactly 1,000 days have passed since the planetoid appeared on the Earth's natural satellite, passing over 839 meters on the surface of the Moon.
Gazprom and Roscosmos will launch a plant for the production of Earth probe satellites in 2022
Deputy Head of GAZPROM Vitaly Markelov noted that this direction is very promising and a priority
The Gazprom and Roscosmos plant for the production of satellites for Earth sensing will be launched in 2022. This was announced by Deputy Head of GAZPROM Vitaly Markelov during the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.
The UAE will launch a spacecraft to explore seven asteroids in 2028
The United Arab Emirates has announced the launch of its first asteroid exploration program, under which an interplanetary vehicle will be launched in 2028. In five years, he must fly around Venus and visit seven asteroids of the Main Belt, one of which he will land on, The National News reports.
Three Russian-made toilets are now operating on the ISS
A second toilet has been launched on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), it is deployed in the new NAUKA module, which docked to the ISS in July.
This became known from the crew's negotiations with Earth, which are broadcast by NASA.
"I am ready to test in combat conditions," cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky said after completing the connection of the toilet in the new module.
Rogozin called the launch dates of the LUNA-25 station
The Luna-25 automatic station will be launched in July 2022. This was announced on October 5 by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.
The UAE has announced the launch of a Venus exploration program
The launch of the spacecraft is scheduled for 2028
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched a space program to explore Venus and the asteroid belt. This was written on Twitter by the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Rogozin called the reason for the transition to manual control of the SOYUZ MS-19
The transition to manual control was required by the commander of the SOYUZ MS-19 due to a malfunction in the KURS docking system on the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Tuesday, October 5, by the head of ROSCOSMOS Dmitry Rogozin.
The medical module may appear on the future Russian orbital station
In April, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that the state of the ISS leaves much to be desired, so the Russian Federation can focus on creating its own orbital station
The medical module can be included in a promising Russian orbital service station. This was announced on Tuesday by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
The launch of the LUNA-25 automatic station is scheduled for July 2022
The station will be the first domestic device in modern Russia on a natural satellite of the Earth
The LUNA-25 automatic station will be launched in July, and the Russian-European ExoMars mission will be launched in September next year. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on the air of Channel One.
The terms of rehabilitation of Peresild and Shipenko after the flight to the ISS will depend on their organisms
According to the Cosmonaut Training Center, as a rule, after short flights, rehabilitation takes seven days
The terms of rehabilitation after short flights into space are usually seven days, for actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko, they will depend on their well-being. This was reported to TASS at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC).
The Russian segment of the ISS lost one docking node due to cracks in the ZVEZDA module
According to Vladimir Solovyov, the general designer of RSC Energia, now 80% of the equipment in the Russian segment is beyond resources
Russia cannot fully use one of the docking nodes of the ISS due to leaks in the transition chamber of the ZVEZDA module.
The American segment of the ISS received 250 serious technical comments
The modules of the American segment of the International Space Station (ISS) have about 250 serious technical comments. This was announced on October 4 by Vladimir Solovyov, General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, at a conference at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The American drone spent a record eight days in the air
The Vanilla Unmanned drone of the American company of the same name spent eight days, 50 minutes and 47 seconds in the air. The developers say that he broke the world record for the duration of the flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle with an internal combustion engine without refueling.
NASA has completed the design of the Nancy Grace Roman space Telescope
NASA has completed design and development work on the creation of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, according to the agency's website.
In 2021, the Russian military controlled the launch of almost 1.5 thousand spacecraft into orbit
More than 1,450 spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
The USA decided to create a prototype of the Space Intelligence Center
The U.S. Space Force has established an intelligence analysis team at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This was reported on October 4 by the SpaceNews portal with reference to the documents.
RSC Energia said that the cost of the ISS is estimated at $150 billion
Only 10% of this amount of real money was spent, the corporation noted
The cost of the International Space Station (ISS), according to independent estimates, currently amounts to about $ 150 billion. This was stated on Monday by Vladimir Solovyov, General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) ENERGIA, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the conference "Scientific Space of the XXI Century: Challenges, Solutions, Breakthroughs" at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
RSC Energia reported that the ERA manipulator has problems
General designer of the corporation Vladimir Solovyov suggested that in a year the manipulator will work brilliantly
A number of problems are now observed in the operation of the ERA manipulator, which is installed on the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" of the International Space Station. This was announced on Monday by twice Hero of the Soviet Union, General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) ENERGIA, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Solovyov.
