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The launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket from Baikonur with the British OneWeb communication satellites, scheduled for August 5, was postponed for at least a week due to the unavailability of the devices. This was announced on Wednesday, July 14, RIA Novosti reports, citing three sources in the rocket and space industry.

The Chinese National Space Administration has published a number of new images of Mars taken by the Zhuzhong rover. Among them are the first multispectral images that allow scientists to roughly determine the composition of soil and stones, CNSA reports.

The X-56B unmanned aerial vehicle, which is able to suppress flutter, crashed during tests. According to the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, it was damaged in flight as a result of an anomaly, but no details were reported. No one was injured in the accident, but the drone was destroyed.

The German Bundeswehr has officially launched the work of the" space " headquarters. This was announced on Tuesday, July 13, by the DW TV channel. The main task of the headquarters is to protect satellites and monitor threats in outer space.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted Blue Origin a license to launch the New Shepard spacecraft with people on board. If nothing changes, the first such flight will take place on July 20.

Such a system on board the manned station will allow collecting carbon dioxide and processing it by hydrogenation reaction, according to the annual report of the institute

The Research and Design Institute of Chemical Engineering (Niihimmash) will develop a system for processing carbon dioxide to ensure life in space. This is stated in the annual report of the Institute.

In the future, the Institute plans to start making bags for freeze-dried space food on a regular basis

JSC "Research and Design Institute of Chemical Engineering" (Niihimmash) plans to start manufacturing bags for freeze-dried space food on a regular basis. This is stated in the annual report of the Institute.

NASA has issued a contract to Northrop Grumman Corporation involving the construction of the HALO module for the new Gateway lunar orbital station. It is considered as an element of the ambitious Artemis program.

The elements of the single-turn rendezvous scheme with the International Space Station (ISS) were worked out during the flight of the Progress MS-17 spacecraft on July 2. This was announced on Monday, July 12, by Roscosmos.

Researchers sprouted rice from 40 g of seeds that went into space with a lunar probe in November 2020

Chinese breeders have collected the first harvest of rice from seeds that were in space during the mission of the lunar exploration apparatus "Chang'e-5". This was reported by Bloomberg on Monday.

The press secretary of the President of Russia said that this process is too expensive

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov is convinced that the process of space exploration without the participation of the state with the involvement of only private investment is impossible.

We are talking about four recruits-Sergey Teteryatnikov, Alexander Kolyabin, Sergey Irtuganov and Harutyun Kiviryan

Four candidates for the Russian cosmonaut squad have started general space training (OKP). This is stated in the message of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC), distributed on Monday.

The project is based on an effective and promising technology of gas ionization in vacuum using porous membranes

The Mozhaisky Military Space Academy and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have developed an ion electric motor that can be used for deep space exploration in the future.

The device is engaged in studying the soil, ionosphere and climate

The Zhuzhong rover of the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission has covered a total of more than 410 m on the surface of the Red Planet. This was reported on Monday by the Central Television of China.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky said on July 9, as part of the international online training Cyber Polygon, that some information is transmitted from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth encrypted and even when intercepted, it cannot be decrypted.

Virgin Galactic's Unity rocket plane with its billionaire owner Richard Branson on board on Sunday, July 11, reached the Pocket line, which is considered the boundary of space. The flight was broadcast on the company's YouTube.

The American company SpaceX has shown the work of a new autonomous floating platform Shortfall of Gravitas, which is designed for landing the stages of Falcon rockets. The corresponding video was published on July 9 on his Twitter account by the founder of the company, Elon Musk.

They want to supply the Russian nuclear tug Zeus with weapons that will allow it to destroy satellites. Earlier it was reported that the tug is planned to be used to search for extraterrestrial life.

Specialists of the Arsenal design Bureau, which is engaged in research on the creation of promising spacecraft for Roscosmos, propose to supply the future Russian base on Mars with a nuclear power plant. This was reported on Saturday, July 10, by RIA Novosti with reference to the materials of the enterprise available to the agency.

The American cargo spacecraft Cargo Dragon, which undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), landed normally in the Atlantic on Saturday, the developer company SpaceX reported.