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The problems that caused the postponement of the launch of the Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) are probably caused by corrosion of the valves caused by the leakage of the oxidizer, a representative of the Boeing company said during a briefing.

The state Corporation Roscosmos has expressed its readiness to cooperate with Tunisia in preparing for the flight into orbit of a female cosmonaut from this country. This was announced on Friday, August 13, the press service of Roscosmos reported.

In September 1999, American researchers discovered a near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of just over 500 m and a mass of 85.5 million tons, which orbits the Sun in an elliptical orbit for 1.2 years. The asteroid was named Bennu after a bird from Egyptian mythology.

The satellite will receive and transmit signals of an automatic identification system for tracking the movement of ships and monitoring activities at sea

Vietnam has delivered its NanoDragon satellite to Japan for an upcoming launch into low-Earth orbit. This was reported on Friday by the newspaper "Nyan Zan" with reference to the National Space Center (NCC) at the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology.

NASA has started selecting candidates for a project to simulate life on Mars. This is a special simulation mission, during which several people will live for 12 months in a special complex "Mars Dune Alpha".

When the Cassini mission explored Titan from the orbit of Saturn, scientists received a lot of new information, but each answer gave rise to a dozen new questions. To answer some of them, in 2019, NASA approved the development of the Dragonfly research vehicle (Dragonfly). It will not be possible to make it universal, so the other day we decided on the priority goal of the mission – it will be the search for life in any form.

He delivered 3.7 tons of payloads to the station

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has completed the docking of the American Cygnus cargo ship of Northrop Grumman Corporation, which delivered 3.7 tons of payloads to the station. The broadcast is carried out on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

According to a high-ranking TASS source in the space industry, a hole in the skin of the Soyuz MS-09 was drilled in zero gravity. At the same time, the alleged culprit did not know the device of the device.

The mission cannot be completed as planned, the Indian Space Research Organization noted

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) reported on Thursday that the launched GSLV-F10 (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, a launch vehicle for launching geosynchronous satellites) with the EOS-03 satellite on board had technical problems, and the mission could not be completed as planned. This is reported by ISRO on its Twitter page.

The device will help in monitoring such weather events as cyclones, thunderstorms

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the GSLV-F10 launch vehicle with the EOS-03 satellite on board on Thursday. As ISRO reported on its Twitter page, the launch took place from the space center named after Satish Dhawan on the island of Sriharikota.

Intuitive Machines has chosen the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to launch its third mission to the moon — IM-3. Before that, the carriers created by Elon Musk's company were chosen for the IM-1 and IM-2 missions.

Roscosmos reported that the process of obtaining international patents for bringing the product to the international market is now underway

A universal satellite platform that will allow collecting and transmitting information about the state of power grids and pipelines is being tested in Russia. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos distributed on Wednesday.

According to Oleg Artemyev, the first residents may be members of the crew of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which includes cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko

The crew members of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which includes cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko, can become the first residents of the new cabin of the Russian segment of the ISS, located in the Nauka module. This was reported to TASS by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.

The United States, China and Russia have not ratified an additional agreement to the Treaty on the Principles of the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, prohibiting military activities on the Moon, according to the American edition of Defense One.

The Canadian company Geometric Energy, represented by its director Samuel Reed, announced a joint project with SpaceX and the launch of a new service in outer space. We are talking about showing ads that are not visible from the Ground, but the Earth itself will be very clearly visible – it will become the background for the display. Reed believes that large brands will launch a real financial battle for such a PR opportunity, and therefore he has already planned an auction.

The first launch of the rocket is scheduled for 2023

Preparatory work began at the Vostochny cosmodrome before installing the launch table for the Angara launch vehicle. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos) on Tuesday.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration stated difficulties in achieving this goal

The head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, offered the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) assistance in developing spacesuits.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense demanding to recover more than 2.4 billion rubles from the Samara JSC "Progress Rocket and Space Center", the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles, follows from the information in the file of arbitration cases.

The landing of American astronauts on the Moon in 2024 is impossible, since the spacesuits are not ready for them. This became known on August 10 from the report of the office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA.

A flyby near Venus is necessary for the device to get acceleration to enter the orbit of Mercury

The automatic spacecraft BepiColombo made a flyby near Venus on Tuesday, at 13:48 Central European time (15.48 Moscow time), taking pictures of it with its two cameras. This was reported by the European Space Agency (ESA).