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Together with her, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and director Klim Shipenko will go to the ISS on board the Soyuz MS-19

Preparations for the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, on which cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko are to go to the ISS, began at Baikonur. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Friday.

The reason for the unauthorized activation of the engines of the Nauka module docked to the ISS could be a human factor, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The upcoming launch, scheduled for August, will be the ninth under the OneWeb program and the third performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome

A batch of spacecraft of the OneWeb global satellite Internet system has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in preparation for their launch. This was reported on the website of Roscosmos on Friday.

The third carrier rocket "Angara A-5" will undergo flight tests

Roscosmos is sending the third Angara A-5 carrier rocket from the Khrunichev Center for flight tests. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

The Main Control Department rejected the protest that NASA acted incorrectly when it chose only SpaceX to build the lunar module

The Main Control Department of the United States (GAO, the control and audit body of Congress) did not find a mistake in the actions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), when it chose only one company, SpaceX, for the construction of the lunar module, not agreeing with the open letter of the founder of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on Friday.

The state Corporation Roscosmos has reduced the preparation time for conducting experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) to one and a half years. This was announced on July 30 by the head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The Ariane 5 heavy launch vehicle has successfully placed the European Eutelsat Quantum satellite and the Brazilian Star One D2 satellite into a geostationary transition orbit, the French operator Arianespace reported.

The Atlas 5 launch vehicle with the CST-100 Starliner of the Boeing Corporation, which was supposed to go to the International Space Station (ISS), was taken away from the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in Florida due to adverse weather conditions. This was announced on July 30 by the carrier developer company United Launch Alliance (ULA).

The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 92 km, after which it fell into the Pacific Ocean

The private Japanese company Interstellar Technologies on Saturday successfully launched a rocket of its own development MOMO. She announced this on Twitter.

The atmosphere was cleaned in the Nauka module, it is integrated into the Russian segment of the ISS, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos has instructed the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia to take additional measures to maintain the operability of the Russian segment of the ISS and make a decision on the future completion of the station's operation, the state corporation reported.

The operation of the Russian segment (RS) of the International Space Station (ISS) is planned to be completed by 2028, TASS reports, referring to the recommendation of the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos.

The launch of the Soyuz rocket with communication satellites of the British company OneWeb from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for mid-August, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The Berth node module has been sent to Baikonur, the launch of which to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for November, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The specialists of the main scientific institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash and the Progress Rocket and Space Center were engaged in the revision

The head fairing of the Soyuz-2.1 a launch vehicle was modified after problems during the docking of the Progress MS-15 and Progress MS-16 cargo ships. This is stated in the material of the magazine "Russian Space" (the official publication of Roscosmos).

It will include 264 vehicles placed in 12 orbital planes

The formation of the Marathon-IoT satellite communications constellation will be fully completed in 2027. This was announced by the Deputy General Designer of JSC " Information Satellite Systems named after academician M. F. Reshetnev" Alexander Kuzovnikov.

Cosmonauts from the International Space Station (ISS) — Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov — published a short video tour of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science". The corresponding frames on Saturday, July 31, were shared by Novitsky.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov previously stated that the state of the ISS leaves much to be desired, so Russia can focus on creating its own orbital station

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) expects that from an engineering point of view it will be able to support the operation of the ISS until at least 2028 and probably even longer. This was stated on Saturday by NASA representative Stephanie Schirholz.

The station turned 45 degrees, said Zebulon Scoville, the flight director of the American segment of the ISS

The International Space Station (ISS) made almost one and a half turns during the incident with the Russian multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science". This was stated on Saturday evening by the head of the flight of the American segment of the ISS Zebulon Scoville.

The launch was carried out using a CZ-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome

China on Thursday successfully launched the Tinahui-1-04 satellite into orbit to conduct scientific experiments and study land resources. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).