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The Skif spacecraft are being developed within the framework of the Sphere program

The launch of the Skif spacecraft will allow creating a full-fledged broadband Internet access system in Russia in the future. This was announced on Friday on Twitter by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Russian cosmonauts may set a record next year for the number of spacewalks. They will have to leave the International Space Station (ISS) nine times, according to the flight program available to RIA Novosti.

The Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission, which involves the second test attempt of the Starliner spacecraft without a crew to reach the International Space Station (ISS), is unlikely to take place this year, reports SpaceNews a statement by Katie Leaders, who recently headed the NASA Space Operations Directorate.

The launch of the first satellite of the Skif system will allow Russia to consolidate its orbital position. Thus, the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, appreciated the importance of launching the Skif-D spacecraft on Twitter.

The dismissed director of flight tests of Virgin Galactic, Mark Stuckey, revealed the company's problems. According to him, the pilot's error, and not a strong wind, led to the deviation from the original course of the Unity suborbital spacecraft, on board of which was the British billionaire Richard Branson, writes Parabolic Arc.

A batch of 36 British OneWeb communication satellites has arrived in Russia, Roscosmos announced on Saturday. "A new batch of 36 OneWeb spacecraft has been delivered to Ignatievo Airport (Blagoveshchensk) by An-124-100 aircraft," the state corporation said, noting that they will be transported to the Vostochny cosmodrome during the day.

The Starlink global Internet system can be used as a replacement for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), according to the Ohio State University, citing a study aimed at publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

According to the representative of the company Sergey Kostenko, this is a difficult issue that will require further development of the ship

The company Space Adventures, which promotes space tourism on the Russian "Soyuz", plans to offer customers a flyby of the Moon. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the company's representative office in Russia, Sergey Kostenko.

The company said that the flight is planned for 2023 or 2024

The Space Adventures company is negotiating with potential space tourists who are ready to fly to the ISS on the Soyuz and go into outer space. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the company's representative office in Russia, Sergey Kostenko.

According to the company Space Adventures, a space tourist who is the first among non-professional participants of the flight to go into outer space will pay several million dollars more.

One of the potential space tourists doubted the reliability of Elon Musk's ship and preferred to fly into space on the Russian Soyuz . This is reported by RIA Novosti.

The government organization NASA, following a number of other American federal structures, officially entrusted its documents and communication systems to Box. Cloud technologies and storage will be used to process almost all the agency's working documentation. This was done primarily to ensure reliable remote work of 18,000 employees scattered throughout the United States.

Training in the mountains refers to the tests of "survival".

In the event of an emergency landing, the ship's crew must be ready for autonomous actions before the approach of search and rescue forces in any terrain and in any weather.

The moon is an excellent base, including a military one. Flights there, as well as to Mars, are the next obvious steps that humanity should take for space exploration. Nevertheless, neither Russia nor other countries have any real opportunities for this yet. This is the opinion in a conversation with " Lenta.ru " was expressed by Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.

At the same time, the ERA computer, its external control panel and the Russian computer work well and exchange information, the European Space Agency noted

Experts have identified data transmission failures during the first tests of the new ERA robot manipulator placed on the outer surface of the multi-purpose laboratory module "Science" of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Thursday by the European Space Agency.

The work should be completed by December 10, 2023

Roscosmos is looking for a contractor to organize experiments on the Russian segment of the ISS and determine the current and residual life of structural elements and hulls of the Russian segment of the station. This is stated in the materials posted on the public procurement website.

The station will be part of the infrastructure for carrying out flights to the moon

The Russian orbital service station will include seven modules and a short-radius centrifuge. This is stated in the terms of reference for the research project on preparing for a flight to the Moon, published by Roscosmos on the public procurement website.

The works will be carried out within the framework of a tender worth 1.7 billion rubles

The technical task for the creation of the Russian lunar base should be formed by the end of 2025. This is stated in the tender of Roscosmos, posted on the official website of public procurement.

The private company Success Rockets (SR) intends to set a record for the height of a suborbital flight for Russian private companies in November this year, the SR press service told Interfax.

The state Corporation Roscosmos and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) recommended submitting proposals to the government on the creation of a new Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), which should replace the International Space Station (ISS) by 2028. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the state corporation.