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The Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the third attempt. This is reported on the website of the state corporation "Roscosmos".

Research is being conducted to launch 36 OneWeb spacecraft from the cosmodrome, not 34, Roscosmos noted

The flight trajectories from the Baikonur cosmodrome during the launches of the British OneWeb communication satellites will be finalized to increase the number of devices being launched at a time. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Sunday.

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".

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.

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.

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.

In 2021, the PRC should carry out at least 40 launches and set a new national record

China successfully launched the second group of Tianhui-2 scientific and experimental satellites into orbit on Thursday. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The correction of the orbit height of the International Space Station was postponed to a reserve date at the request of the American side, Roscosmos reported.

The loops of the multifunctional laboratory module (MLM) "Nauka", docked to the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), creak and drown out other sounds, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the NASA-organized broadcast of the crew members ' negotiations with Earth, organized by NASA.

In China, three years ago, they began designing a solar power plant for transmitting energy to the Earth. The construction of the station was frozen for a while, but it was resumed a couple of months ago. Now the authorities plan to receive energy from 1 MW of the orbital station by 2030, and from 2049 — from 1 GW.

The United States and Canada have agreed on concrete steps to modernize the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North America (NORAD). This is stated in a joint statement of the defense ministers of the two countries.

Ukraine intends to withdraw from two agreements of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on outer space. The relevant information follows from the agenda of the meeting of the Government of the country for Wednesday, August 18.

The peculiarity of the" Sula " is the compact size of the antenna web, which allows you to track the movement of satellites, the Almaz-Antey concern reported

The newest radar station (radar) for observing space objects "Sula" developed by the company " Radiophysics "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey") it is capable of detecting space debris at a distance of up to 6 thousand km.

The heads of the space departments of the BRICS countries signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of exchange of satellite data for remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing), Roscosmos reported.

The document will help accelerate cooperation in various sectors, including global climate change, agriculture, the ministry noted

The agreement on the exchange of remote sensing data of the BRICS, signed on Wednesday by the member countries of the association (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), was the first step in the cooperation of the "five" in space. This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, which this year chairs the "five", the BRICS Sherpa Sanjay Bhattacharya.

The first launch of the Eagle without astronauts on board is scheduled for December 15, 2023

Roscosmos plans to assess the economic efficiency of transport and technical support (TTO) of the International Space Station (ISS) and the promising Russian Orbital Station (ROS) with Soyuz MS and promising Eagles, according to the public procurement portal.

The initial price of the application was 67.6 million rubles

Roscosmos plans to conduct a technical and economic assessment of the creation and operation of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2025. This is stated in the documents posted on the public procurement portal.

The state corporation previously announced plans to put telescopes on the lunar base to monitor dangerous asteroids and comets

Roscosmos plans to use the Astronomical Research Center (ANC) to create equipment that will be installed on the Lunar Scientific Base to monitor the asteroid-comet danger. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The systems of the central module of the space station are operating normally, the Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China reported

The crew members of the manned spacecraft of the People's Republic of China "Shenzhou-12", working at the Chinese orbital station, will soon go into outer space for the second time. This was announced on Tuesday by the Department of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The helicopter-drone Ingenuity ("Ingenuity"), which arrived on Mars together with the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance"), made the 12th successful autonomous flight on the Red Planet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.