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The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Tuesday, May 4, successfully launched another batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit, which should replenish the orbital grouping of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system. This was announced by the developer company SpaceX on Twitter.

The prototypes have already been tested

JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation "Precision Instrument Systems" (NPK "SPP", part of Roscosmos) has created a mobile medical and diagnostic complex, the prototypes have already been tested. This is stated in the draft plan for the implementation of the company's product diversification program until 2025 (available to TASS).

Intel boasted that the rover received two COMEX-IE38 modules from the company CompuLab, which are based on the Bay Trail generation Intel Atom processors.

As of May 4, 22 spacecraft are operating as part of the Russian GLONASS orbital constellation, the Information and Analytical Center for Coordinate-Time and Navigation Support said on Tuesday.

An unguided Chinese rocket weighing 21 tons falls to the Ground. Astrophysicists believe that it is impossible to predict the place of the fall, the device can fall on a populated area. Changzheng-5 was delivering a space station module to orbit. Now the rocket freely rotates around the Earth at a speed of 27.6 thousand km / h. gradually decreasing, reports the TV channel "Izvestia". The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth on May 8-12. The time of the collision will be known 6 hours before the event.

The sensor is designed to determine the spatial orientation of the spacecraft relative to the inertial equatorial stellar coordinate system

The small-sized star sensor AZDK-1 for small spacecraft, created in Azmerit LLC (RKS holding, part of Roscosmos), has begun to pass flight tests. This is stated in the message of the holding, distributed on Tuesday.

The functionality of the spacecraft has been fully restored

The Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2 is again operating normally. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of JSC "Corporation "VNIIEM".

Both subsequent launches will be commercial. They will be produced in May and July.

The work with the two Fregat upper stages is carried out by specialists at the Amur Vostochny cosmodrome. One of them is filled with fuel components and compressed gases at the filling and neutralization station.

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

A recent study, the results of which are published in the journal Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, found that the ever-growing mass of space debris in low-Earth orbit creates another unexpected problem. The fact is that the sunlight reflected from it, falling on the Earth, makes it difficult for astronomers to observe the stars.

Engineers and scientists are celebrating the setting of a new historical record – for the first time, the creation of human hands has accelerated to a speed of more than half a million kilometers per hour. The solar probe "Parker" is currently moving at a speed of 532,000 km/h and makes its eighth orbit around our star. Its onboard instruments actively collect information about magnetic fields, high-energy particles, and take pictures of the Sun.

The next prototype of the American Starship spacecraft, being developed for manned flights to the Moon and Mars, can be launched in a test suborbital flight on May 4 or 5, the specialized website Next Spaceflight reported.

China will have a national space station in low-Earth orbit. On April 29, the press service of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) reported that the Changzheng-5B launch vehicle successfully launched the base module of the future space station into orbit.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed unique footage of the origin of vortices and weather, captured by the Russian satellite "Arctic-M", launched in February. He posted the pictures on his Telegram channel.

Specialists of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have completed an experiment aimed at testing the flight to the satellite of our planet. A total of six people were involved in the study. It was part of the preparation for a new stage of the SIRIUS international isolation experiment.

The US Space Agency decided to suspend the contract issued earlier by SpaceX and implying the creation of the lander. The reason was protests from the company's competitors — Dynetics and Blue Origin.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved three launches of technology demonstrators of the Starship space system. The nearest of them may take place very soon.

Jeff Bezos announced the sale of tickets for space tourists. Those interested will be able to purchase a seat in the New Shepard ship. The device was developed by the businessman's company, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Tickets to the orbit can be issued as early as May 5. Three years ago, the media reported that one ticket one ticket to space will cost $200-300 thousand. The corporation has been developing the New Shepard rocket since 2006. The company conducted 15 tests of the ship. The last test - it was held on April 14 - was considered a success by experts.

Launched on Monday on a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 36 British satellites, together with the Fregat upper stage, are included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian space Control System, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The Progress MS-14 spacecraft was launched to the ISS from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 25. He set a record for the longest stay in orbit

The Progress MS-14 space cargo ship, which spent more than a year in orbit, was driven out of orbit and burned up in the atmosphere on Thursday night. The unburned parts were flooded in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos said in a statement.