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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.

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.

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.

This hyperspectral satellite will be used for environmental monitoring projects

China successfully launched the Gaofen-5-02 optical remote sensing satellite into orbit on Tuesday. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The second copy of the RD-171MV engine, designed for the Soyuz-5 rocket, has successfully passed fire tests, Roscosmos reported.

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.

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.

Virgin Galactic has announced the composition of the first commercial crew of the Unity suborbital spacecraft. The flight of the device is scheduled for the end of September-beginning of October, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The mission included Air Force servicemen Walter Villadei and Angelo Landolfi. The researcher Pantaleone Carlucci will fly on board the ship. The crew will include a representative of the company Beth Moses. Earlier, Virgin Galactic announced the sale of tickets. The price of one seat on the ship starts from $450 thousand.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

According to the head of Roscosmos, a branch of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at the cosmodrome will appear for the first flight of the Orel spacecraft with a crew-by 2025

New houses in the Tsiolkovsky district, which is located next to the Vostochny cosmodrome, will soon be transferred to the cosmodrome. This was announced on Monday by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The State Commission recommended that the Arktika-M system with the spacecraft of the same name be put into operation

Flight tests of the hydrometeorological satellite "Arctic-M" have been completed, it is recommended to put the device into operation. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Specialists of the Molniya Research and Production Association are preparing to return the Buran spacecraft to Russia. Representatives of the company that developed the ship visited the Baikonur cosmodrome to inspect the infrastructure and the orbiter itself, according to the official website of the NGO Molniya.

Roscosmos and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have signed an agreement to supply the UVSPEX ultraviolet spectrograph for the future Russian telescope, which will search for biomarkers in the atmospheres of already known exoplanets. This was announced by Mikhail Sachkov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti.

The company-developer of rocket and space technology Firefly Aerospace Inc., owned by Ukrainian businessman Maxim Polyakov, reported on September 3 that the flight of the Alpha rocket was interrupted according to security protocols.

Pepper bloomed for the first time on board the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Friday, September 3, by American astronaut Megan MacArthur.

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on September 30, according to the data of the specialized website Space Launch Now.

Nine spacewalks will be required for the full launch of the new module of the ISS "Nauka", said Alexander Kaleri, head of the flight and space center of the rocket and space corporation" Energia".

Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov began extravehicular activity on September 3

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov have completed a spacewalk, within the framework of which they began work on the integration of the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science". The broadcast of extravehicular activity was conducted on the Roscosmos website.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit any launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. This is reported by TASS.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, showed Russian President Vladimir Putin a mock-up of the Russian space nuclear tug Zeus at the Vostochny cosmodrome, from where it is planned to launch in 2030. This is reported by RIA Novosti.