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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.

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.