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The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

Either to Vostochny or to Baikonur, the head of Roscosmos said

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, invited the winners and prize-winners of the VI National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) employees of NPO Automatics to one of the rocket launches from the Vostochny or Baikonur cosmodromes.

The construction of the terminal of the new airport complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed in 2024-2025, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

Methane engines currently being developed for a superheavy lunar rocket will allow multiple use of the carrier stages, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state corporation Roscosmos.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

A superheavy rocket for flights to the moon in its former form will not be created, funds are directed to the creation of methane technologies. This was announced during a conversation with journalists by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday, September 15.

Tests of the control systems of the new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle will begin simultaneously with the flight tests of the rocket itself, which are scheduled for December 2023, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said

As noted in Roscosmos, all devices are accepted for communication by the customer

More than 30 British OneWeb communication satellites have been successfully launched into orbit. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

On September 16, a 25-year-old record for the number of people in space at the same time can be broken, cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told RIA Novosti. According to him, after the launch of the SpaceX Inspiration4 charity mission, 14 people from the United States, China, Russia, France and Japan may be in low-Earth orbit at once.

Russia has stopped the technical design of a super-heavy carrier that they wanted to use for flights to the moon. Earlier it was reported that this could involve the Angara-A5B and Soyuz-2.1 a missiles.

Candidates for cosmonauts of the set of 2021 are beginning one of the most difficult stages of general space training (OKP).

Each of the test participants will have to spend three days in a sign language chamber, while 64 hours-without sleep. The first was cosmonaut candidate Alexander Kolyabin.

The general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, asked not to respond with emoticons and memes to his posts related to the activities of the corporation. Rogozin left such a comment to his post on Facebook.

The companies included Blue Origin, SpaceX, Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States has selected five companies that should assist in carrying out developments related to the future use of the lunar lander. The contract amount will be $146 million, according to a statement published on the agency's website on Tuesday.

Wozniak announced the creation of the space company Privateer Space. It is stated that it will work to ensure that space is safe and accessible to humanity.

All seats in the new council were taken by representatives of Roscosmos

Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia announced the early termination of the powers of the board of directors and the election of members of the new board.

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.