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According to several participants of the Wenchang International Aerospace Forum-2021, Hainan can provide their launch and is able to process data received from orbit

The South Chinese province of Hainan plans to actively develop the industry of small space satellites and will constantly increase cooperation with other countries in this direction. This was reported by the newspaper "Hainan Zhibao".

A Russian matryoshka satellite capable of destroying American spacecraft is in near-Earth orbit, RIA Novosti reports a statement by the head of the US Space Command, General John Raymond.

NASA has reorganized the management of its own manned flight program, creating two divisions instead of the current one, TASS reports, referring to the statement of the head of the American space Agency Bill Nelson.

Specialists are working on activating the manipulator control and integrating software into the station control system

Cosmonauts of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) are working on testing and activating the control systems of the ERA robot manipulator placed on the outer surface of the Nauka laboratory module. This was reported on Wednesday in Roscosmos.

The Russian Space Systems Holding Company (RKS), part of the state Corporation Roscosmos, announced the development of a next-generation active phased array (AFAR) receiving and transmitting module. The solution opens the way to the deployment of high-speed orbital radio lines.

The head of the planetary division of the department, Lori Glaze, noted that this region for landing was not only the most interesting from the point of view of science, but also the most convenient from the point of view of maintaining communication with the Earth.

We are talking about small spacecraft under the Space-Pi program, including for automatic identification of vessels

Sputnix (a resident of Skolkovo) plans to launch small spacecraft under the Space-Pi program, including for automatic identification of ships (AIS), in the first quarter of next year. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the landing site of the VIPER rover on the Lunar surface in 2023, according to the office's website.

According to the head of Roscosmos, SpaceX is trying to squeeze the Russian state corporation out of the space launch market, using various tools, including dumping

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin ruled out direct cooperation between Roscosmos organizations and Elon Musk's company SpaceX.

It includes the project of the nuclear tug "Zeus", said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin

Roscosmos expects to protect the project on nuclear space energy, which includes the project of the Zeus nuclear tug, in the government of the Russian Federation by the end of the year. This was announced on Tuesday by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The head of Roscosmos noted that it is planned to adapt the floating spaceport for the launches of promising Soyuz-5 launch vehicles

The future of the floating spaceport "Sea Launch" should be determined in the near future. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday during the scientific and practical conference "Orbit of Youth".

The American company SpaceX, headed by Elon Musk, is squeezing Roscosmos enterprises out of the international space services market, RIA Novosti reports the statement of the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

In 2023, about 209.61 billion rubles will be allocated for these purposes, according to the explanatory note to the draft budget

Russia plans to allocate about 629.64 billion rubles for the implementation of the state program "Space Activities of Russia" in 2022-2024, according to the explanatory note to the draft budget for this period, which is available to TASS.

In 2024, the volume of budget allocations under the program "Development of cosmodromes for the period 2017-2025" may be reduced by 6.79 billion rubles

Financing for the construction of the second stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2023 can be increased by 14.6 billion rubles, according to an explanatory note to the draft budget for this period, which is available to TASS.

The head of the US space agency, Bill Nelson, said that two new directorates will appear instead of one structural unit

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is reorganizing its manned flight program, creating two new directorates instead of one structural unit, one of which will focus on research beyond Earth's orbit, including a flight to Mars.

The crew commander of the first main expedition to the station, William Shepard, said that the ISS could not have been in orbit without the participation of Russia

The International Space Station (ISS) would not have been able to be in orbit if Russia had not participated in this project.

The members of the council noted the need to use the potential of the Vostochny cosmodrome, Roscosmos reported

The participants of the meeting of the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos and the Bureau of the RAS Council for Space, held on Tuesday by video conference, supported the program of scientific research that is planned to be carried out on board the Luna-25 automatic station. This was reported to TASS in the state corporation.

The Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos recommended that work on the creation of a technical project for a new orbital station be included in the Federal Space Program-2025

The Bureau of the RAS Space Council recommended that Roscosmos submit proposals to the government on the need to create a Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). This was reported to TASS in the press service of the state corporation.

The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, announced plans to visit Russia in the near future, according to the NASA broadcast.

Visual illustration of the process of putting a ship with Russian cosmonauts into orbit

The Soyuz family of launch vehicles, which traces its history back to the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile, has already had more than 70 years of history, and the first manned flight into space on it took place back in 1967. Nevertheless, there is no alternative to the "Unions" in the Russian cosmonautics yet, and they still put most people and cargo into orbit.