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The general director of the Kazakhstan JSC "Rocket and Space Company "Baikonur" Dauren Musa said that his company owns the second flight model of the Soviet "Buran". The businessman assured that the company does not plan to transfer it to Russia, TASS reports.

The unsuccessful launch of the new Alpha rocket is associated with the premature shutdown of the first-stage engine. After the problem made itself felt, the carrier was blown up.

The Buran orbiter, located in Kazakhstan, has not yet lost its relevance. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, September 9, by Mikhail Kornienko, a pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, hero of Russia, to Izvestia.

In addition, the astronauts need to complete the operations for the final connection of the Ethernet cable to the "Science", connect the interfaces of the MLM module and the "Star", install several cables and mount the installation platform.

The corresponding draft note of the Russian Foreign Ministry suggests the extension of the agreement on duty-free import of "space" goods for a period of five years until 2026

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Foreign Ministry on behalf of the government to exchange notes with the United States on the extension of the duty-free import agreement for goods transported within the framework of Russian-American cooperation in the field of space exploration. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The specialists of the enterprise visited the Baikonur cosmodrome only for the purpose of assessing the technical condition of the structures in which the spacecraft is located

The Molniya Scientific and Production Enterprise (NPO) visited Baikonur in order to assess the condition of the technical structure in which the Buran flight sample is stored, the enterprise has no plans to return the spacecraft to Russia. This was reported to TASS on Thursday in the press service of the NGO.

The launch was the 388th for the Long March series rockets

China on Thursday successfully launched the Zhongxing-9B satellite from the Xichang Cosmodrome in the southwestern province of Sichuan. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

Roscosmos confirmed the triggering of an emergency alarm in the Russian Zvezda module. However, the incident did not affect the preparation of astronauts for a spacewalk – it is conducted normally.

Dmitry Rogozin, the General Director of Roscosmos, responded on Facebook to the owner of the Kazakh Rocket and Space Company Baikonur, Dauren Musa, who introduced himself as the owner of an almost ready-made flight model of the Soviet reusable Buran spacecraft, RIA Novosti reports.

The third and fourth missions to deliver people to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Crew Dragon spacecraft will send American, European and Japanese astronauts, as well as another unnamed crew member, to Earth orbit, NASA reports.

The international experiment on simulating the flight to the Moon SIRIUS-21 is scheduled to begin on November 4 this year. This was reported to RIA Novosti on September 9 at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A fire has occurred in the Russian Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the negotiations of the crew with the Mission Control Center near Moscow broadcast by NASA.

The emergency alarm in the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) went off during automatic battery recharging, Roscosmos commented on press reports about smoke at the near-Earth laboratory.

The Commission on the Safety of the countries participating in the International Space Station (ISS) project recommended that the governments of the countries extend the operation of the station after 2024. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of Roscosmos.

They want to launch the James Webb Space Telescope on December 18. Before that, the start was repeatedly postponed-including due to the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the main problems that the participants of the first lunar missions will face is the search and extraction of fresh water. NASA studies of recent years, in particular the Lunar Prospector, LCROSS and SOFIA missions, have confirmed the presence of a large amount of ice at the satellite's poles. However, before getting water from it, it must be extracted from the lunar soil – regolith.

The flight will be the fourth

The next - already the fourth-mission to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Crew Dragon spacecraft is planned no earlier than April 15, 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration on its website.

The cause of the accident of the American-Ukrainian Alpha rocket was the premature stop of one of the four engines of the first stage, which was accompanied by the closing of valves in the fuel lines, the American portal reports Space.com, referring to the statement of representatives of the company Firefly.

Communicating with followers on Twitter, Musk said that the transition to laser communication will not only speed up data transmission, but also allow the company to abandon ground-based base stations.

The state Corporation plans to establish cooperation with existing regional centers and states that are interested in building up human potential in the space industry.