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This is necessary so that the telescope can resume observations

TASS, July 1. NASA engineers are preparing to turn on the backup units of the on-board computer of the Hubble orbital observatory, some of the components of which failed in mid-June. The NASA Space Flight Center writes about this on its website. Goddard.

As the company clarified, such indicators are associated with the start of regular operation of Crew Dragon

The share of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, which produces manned Soyuz spacecraft, for the delivery and return to orbit of the crews of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2020 fell to 66%. This is stated in the company's annual report.

The station's location in orbit from 60 to 80 degrees north latitude will provide increased opportunities for viewing the entire territory of Russia

The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has considered four different options for creating a Russian orbital service station (ROSS). This is stated in the company's annual report for 2020.

According to the scientist, Russia will be able to launch the Millimetron space observatory only in the mid-2030s. Among the tasks of the device is the study of the global structure of the Universe.

The removal of the devices by the upper stage will take about four hours

The Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 36 British OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome.

The American company Sierra Nevada Corporation presented the MC-145B Wily Coyote combat aircraft. According to The Drive, it is based on the Polish PZL M28 Skytruck and can carry AGM-144 missiles, GBU-39/B aerial bombs, small drones and other ammunition.

The laboratory of the US Air Force has published a report "Primer on Near-lunar Space", which contains recommendations to the US space forces on preparing for a situation in which the Moon and the outer space around it will act as a war zone. This became known on Tuesday, June 29.

The Soyuz-2.1 a rocket successfully coped with the task of launching the Progress MS-17 spacecraft with cargo for the International Space Station (ISS) into near-Earth orbit. This was announced on Wednesday, June 30, by the press service of Roscosmos.

The Chinese rover "Zhuzhong" transmitted to Earth audio and video materials that interested scientists. Among them are a dangerous landing on the surface of the planet, selfies of the rover and sounds with which researchers hope to study the nature of the wind on Mars.

He stated that "we are not going to and will not take retaliatory steps that harm us ourselves"

Russia will not suspend the supply of Russian rocket engines, as well as titanium to the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

A patent for an invention for a new electrically conductive coating that can withstand thermal effects up to 250 degrees Celsius was obtained by engineers of the Shvabe holding company from Kazan.

Virgin Orbit launched the LauncherOne rocket. Seven spacecraft were put into orbit for different operators.

The National Space Administration of China (CNSA) has published a new photo of Mars taken by the Zhurong rover ("Zhuzhong"). This is reported by CNN.

The existence of living organisms on Venus is impossible due to the almost complete absence of biologically available water and the presence of sulfuric acid. This conclusion was reached by scientists at Queens University in Belfast, who measured the activity of water in the clouds of the second planet from the Sun and other large objects of the Solar system. The astronomers published their findings in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The Chinese decided to use the promising superheavy carrier "Changzheng-9" in the creation of a space solar power plant. It will be located at an altitude of almost 36 thousand kilometers and transmit the collected energy to the Earth.

Launched on June 25, 2021 at 22: 50 Moscow time from Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region with a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket, the Kosmos-2550 spacecraft is the first "active" radar reconnaissance satellite 14F139 "Pion-NKS" of the space complex of marine reconnaissance and target designation 14K159 "Liana", writes the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

The European Space Agency has commissioned Milrem Robotics to develop projects for lunar rovers and rovers with a hitherto unprecedented level of autonomy. As indicated in the ESA roadmap, the agency needs an automatic management system for long-duration lunar missions. Milrem Robotics military robots have been selected as the most promising platform for creating such machines.

The official launch of the telescope is scheduled for 2027

SKA, the world's largest radio telescope under construction, will be equipped with equipment that will allow it to become part of the largest global networks that combine the capacities of the largest radio telescopes in the world. This was announced to TASS by the director General of the SKA Observatory, Professor Philip Diamond.

The National Space Administration of China has published a video of the progress of the mission of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft on Mars. The corresponding video appeared on YouTube.

China plans to extract gigawatts of energy from space

Chinese scientists want to receive megawatts and gigawatts of energy from space. To do this, they plan to put a huge power plant into geostationary orbit.