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Rosatom has planned an experiment with space laser communication for 2024
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 Roscosmos enterprise has signed contracts with oil and gas companies for 6 billion rubles
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.
Rogozin promised to load the unused capacities of Roscosmos with work
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".
How to assemble a Soyuz launch vehicle
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.
Light metro will be built at the Vostochny Cosmodrome
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 first Arab lunar rover will go to the Lake of Dreams
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.
Roscosmos allowed the failure of a new contract with OneWeb due to US sanctions
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 rover traveled on the surface of Mars for more than 1 km
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 issue of lifting sanctions against the Russian space industry will be raised at a meeting between Rogozin and the head of NASA-Roscosmos
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.
Russia has developed a new radar to ensure the safety of satellite launches
The 3K space measurement complex monitors low-orbit space objects, performing automatic detection, tracking and measurement of coordinate and non-coordinate information.
The United States announced a secret space weapon against Russia
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.
The decision to include the Russian segment of the ISS in the new station will be made after the development of the draft project-Rogozin
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.
Rogozin will discuss the fate of the ISS with the head of NASA
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.
Roscosmos will send two more tourists into orbit
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 launch of the Russian automatic station to the Moon was postponed to May 2022
The postponement of the launch is associated with the need for additional confirmation of the declared characteristics of its devices, aggregates and propulsion system
The launch of the Russian automatic station "Luna-25" on a natural satellite of the Earth has been postponed to May 2022. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos on Friday.
About 30 thousand large objects of space debris are in orbit-expert
The number of space debris objects with a diameter of more than 10 cm in near-Earth orbit is about 30 thousand, said Georgy Medovnikov, General Director of the Vympel IAC.
At the Army-2021 forum, they talked about high-precision high-speed missiles
Russian anti-ship missiles X-31AD and X-35UE can hit enemy warships and vessels in any weather conditions and when the sea is rough from five to six points. High-precision weapons were demonstrated at the Army-2021 forum.
"Kronstadt" at the "Army-2021" presented mini-drones for the inspection of space rockets
The company noted that the UAVs are designed primarily for the examination of complex, hard-to-reach and dangerous places for human life
The Kronshtadt company presented at the Army-2021 forum a new line of mini-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that will allow exploring dangerous and hard-to-reach places for humans, in particular, conducting a pre-launch inspection of space rockets. This was reported to TASS on Sunday in the company's press service.
Rogozin called Russian specialists capable of challenging Elon Musk
The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, called Russian specialists capable of challenging the SpaceX team of American inventor and billionaire Elon Musk. According to him, these are new personnel of the Samara University, the press service of the Samara region quotes RIA Novosti.
There are no plans to resume launches of Strela launch vehicles from Baikonur
General Director - General Designer of the enterprise Alexander Leonov said that the launchers for this type of missiles were transferred to JSC "CENKI"
Reutov NPO of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation) It does not plan to resume launches of carrier rockets "Strela" from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This was announced by the general director-General designer of the enterprise Alexander Leonov in an interview with TASS at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army - 2021".
