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The ascent will be carried out using the engines of the Progress MS-16 transport cargo ship, Roscosmos reported

The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted by 890 m on June 24. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Russian specialists have developed a spacecraft for collecting nanoscale objects located in the vicinity of Lagrange points.

Minister of National Defense Soe Uk promised to work closely with the private sector to modernize the space industry

The Republic of Korea will strengthen its defense capabilities in the space sector and create a system to combat threats in space. This was stated on Monday by the Minister of National Defense So Uk, according to the KBS TV channel.

Russia can help Turkey build a spaceport and create a rocket engine, RIA Novosti reports the statement of the head of the National Space Agency of Turkey, Serdar Hussein Yildirim.

The Chinese habitable multi-module space station resembles the Soviet-Russian "Mir" and the American Skylab in terms of the volume of internal living space, writes The Drive.

The launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place on July 1, the state corporation Roscosmos confirmed on Sunday.

On it is a tape with solar panels and microcontainers

The spacecraft, which will be able to collect nanoscale objects of extraterrestrial origin in the vicinity of the libration points (the point at which the gravitational forces of the Sun and the planet are balanced) of the planets of the Solar System, was developed at the Ryazan State Radio Engineering University named after V. F. Utkin.

Experts from Russia and the United States are considering the possibility of modifying people who will have a long-distance space flight, for example, to Mars. In particular, it is discussed whether the spleen should be removed by astronauts to reduce radiation damage. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IBMP) RAS Oleg Orlov.

China is successfully realizing its space ambitions. On June 17, the People's Republic of China successfully sent three astronauts to its own space station "Tiangong" ("Heavenly Palace").

Terra Tech JSC, a subsidiary of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roscosmos) and Promsvyazbank PJSC (PSB) have announced the launch of a joint project on integrated space monitoring and geospatial analysis of the bank's property assets.

This device will be used to study the conditions of exposure to an external electromagnetic field, indicated in the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

China successfully launched the Yaogan-30-09 remote sensing satellite into orbit on Friday. This was reported by the newspaper "Zhongguo Hantianbao".

Russian experts continue to find out the cause of the formation of cracks in the Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS), but the version of metal fatigue has been ruled out, said Sergey Krikalev, adviser to the General Director of Roscosmos, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

In particular, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation inspected the final assembly shops of the NK-32 engines of the second series for the Tu-160 "White Swan" bombers and the deeply modernized Tu-160M

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev visited the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) and the UEC-Kuznetsov in Samara.

[b]The Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China reported that this is "the first time in history that the Chinese have entered their own space station".]

Three Chinese cosmonauts entered the base module of the Tianhe space station of the PRC on Thursday. This was announced on Thursday by the Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

Roscosmos is studying the proposal of the People's Republic of China to send Russian cosmonauts to the Chinese space station, specific negotiations have not yet begun, Sergei Krikalev, an adviser to the head of the state corporation, told Interfax.

General Director of the company Dmitry Loskutov noted that the current contracts of Glavkosmos for commercial launches do not imply a change in the design of the Soyuz rocket

The current contracts of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) for commercial launches do not imply a change in the design of the Soyuz rocket, but such a service can be available to the customer for a fee.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, noted that to monitor CO2 emissions on the topic of so-called carbon units, it will be necessary to create special equipment for spectral analysis

Roscosmos is considering two options for monitoring CO2 emissions from space: creating a separate group or equipping spacecraft already included in the Sphere program with special equipment.

The next attempt will take place in suitable weather, ESA reported

High-altitude tests of the parachutes of the Exomars-2022 lander, which consists of the Russian Kazachok landing platform and the European Rosalind Franklin rover, have not yet been successful, the next attempt will take place in suitable weather.

Threats of a global catastrophe due to which the founder of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, wants to start colonizing Mars, are exaggerated. This was stated by the leading researcher of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Vyacheslav Turyshev.

The chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi, recalled that the CZ-2F launch vehicle was created in the 90s and is refueled according to the technologies of that time

China plans to continuously improve the environmental friendliness of the fuel for its launch vehicles. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Thursday by the chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi.