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The issue of Russia's continued participation in the International Space Station (ISS) project should be decided in the coming months. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station on Tuesday, August 24, by Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos state Corporation.

For the construction of the launch pad, a site was identified in the Mudan village of Pingtong County

The administration of the island of Taiwan plans to build a launch pad for launching rockets into space. This was reported on Tuesday by the island's Central News Agency, citing the head of the space department, Wu Zongxin.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that the launch of the satellite is planned at the turn of 2023-2024

The orbit to which the biological satellite "Bion-M" No. 2 will be launched may be changed. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

Roscosmos has formed proposals for the creation of a group of satellites for environmental monitoring in Russia. They have already been sent to the government, the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with TASS at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

According to the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin, in fact, the Sphere program has already begun, the Ministry of Finance began financing it formally before the adoption of the program

The first funds for the creation of a scientific and technical reserve under the Sphere program will be sent to Roscosmos in the coming days.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, some satellites of remote sensing of the Earth's resource ends in 2023-2024

By the end of the month, Roscosmos will again send the Sphere program to the Russian government to create a multi-satellite grouping. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The launch is scheduled for May

The Luna-25 automatic station is scheduled to be sent to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in early-mid-spring 2022. This was announced by the first Deputy General Director - General Designer of JSC "NPO Lavochkina" Alexander Shirshakov.

The stock of Russian RD-180 engines delivered to the United States is enough to complete the tests of the Starliner manned spacecraft, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told Interfax.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky opened the porthole of the multi-purpose laboratory module of the International Space Station "Nauka"on Sunday, August 22. Roscosmos published the video on Tuesday, August 24.

$420 million has already been spent on the program

A number of members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the US space agency delayed the creation of new spacesuits that should be used for flights to the Moon and Mars. This was reported on Monday by the UPI news agency, in an interview with which the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Don Bayer, said that he intends to hold hearings in order to get explanations from the leadership of NASA.

One device will stand on the Progress, the second-on the ISS, and the communication procedure will be worked out between them

The creation of a prototype of equipment for space laser communication is planned to be completed at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, part of the Rosatom state Corporation) by 2024. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper "Strana Rosatom".

The documents were signed within the framework of the Army-2021 forum

NPO Iskra has signed contracts with major oil and gas companies for the supply of equipment in the amount of 6 billion rubles. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Roscosmos.

The general director of the state corporation said that the production of civilian products will be established at the sites as part of the diversification program

In principle, Roscosmos will not sell production sites that are not currently in use, but will establish production of civilian products on them as part of the diversification program. This was announced by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The Mozhaisk Military Space Academy has presented a virtual assembly and test building of the Plesetsk cosmodrome for the assembly of the Soyuz launch vehicle for training cadets to assemble rockets from scratch.

According to the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, it will connect the airport with the cosmodrome

A light metro is planned to be built at the Vostochny cosmodrome to connect it with the airport, which will be built in 2023. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The team of the first lunar mission of the UAE announced that the assembly of the prototype of the Rashid lunar rover and its functional tests in laboratory conditions have been completed. It is expected that it will go into space in the second half of 2022 and land in the Lake of Dreams — the lunar sea on the visible side of the Moon, according to the tweet of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, admitted that the conclusion of a new contract between the state corporation and the British company OneWeb could be disrupted due to US sanctions.

The Chinese National Space Administration reported that the rover will continue to move in the direction of the southern part of the Martian plain Utopia

The rover of the Chinese research mission "Tianwen-1" traveled on the surface of Mars for more than 1 km. This was reported on Monday by the Xinhua news Agency, citing the Chinese National Space Administration.

Roscosmos plans to raise the issue of lifting sanctions against the Russian space industry at a meeting between the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, and the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, Deputy General Director of the Russian state Corporation for International Cooperation, Sergey Savelyev, told Interfax.

The 3K space measurement complex monitors low-orbit space objects, performing automatic detection, tracking and measurement of coordinate and non-coordinate information.