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The launch took place from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome

The Chinese carrier rocket CZ-2C ("Changzheng-2-xi") successfully launched two experimental satellites into orbit on Tuesday. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

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".

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".

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.

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.

The journalist Ivan Safronov, who is under arrest in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center on charges of high treason, remains an adviser to the general director of the Roscosmos Corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia, in case of withdrawal from the ISS project, will not abandon its obligations to organize the flooding of the station when its resource is exhausted, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

In the near future, the Pentagon will announce and demonstrate a secret space weapon, Breaking Defense reports, citing its own sources. Experts interviewed by the American publication said that in this way the United States will show Russia and China its new anti-satellite development.

Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General of Roscosmos, and Bill Nelson, the head of NASA, will discuss the issues of extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) at a meeting in October. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy head of the state corporation for international cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

Sergey Savelyev, Deputy General Director of the state Corporation Roscosmos for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti that the corporation is considering the possibility of sending two tourists to the ISS on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

The development of the preliminary design of the new Russian orbital station will begin this year

The decision to include the ISS modules in the new Russian orbital station will be presented based on the results of a preliminary design, the development of which will begin this year, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

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

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 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.

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 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.

$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".