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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 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.

At a meeting in the Kremlin with graduates of military universities, Vladimir Putin said that among the new weapons systems are the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon hypersonic ship missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems.

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.

One of them shows the moment when the parachute of the lander opens

The Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has published four new videos of the Tianwen-1 mission on Mars. The videos were posted on Sunday on the official website of the Central Television of China.

The team of the InSight automatic Mars station decided to complete the operation of the device ahead of time, if effective methods for cleaning solar panels from dust are not found. Currently, the batteries are heavily dusted, and electricity generation has fallen by almost eight times compared to the initial level, according to the website Space.com.

After a thorough analysis of the data obtained during the test flight on May 22, the company will be able to continue preparing for the remaining three test flights

TASS, June 25. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has updated the license of Virgin Galactic, which allows sending passengers into space. Information about this appeared on the Virgin Galactic website on Friday.

The eighth flight took place on June 21, the helicopter covered a distance of 160 meters in 77.4 seconds

The Ingenuity helicopter located on Mars flew a total of almost a kilometer during eight flights, which began on April 19. This was reported on Thursday by the American specialized portal SpaceNews, citing a representative of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Teddy Tzanetos.

The passive vehicle will be in orbit, the movement of the active one must be synchronized with it

Roscosmos has patented a method for approaching spacecraft in orbit for servicing satellites. This is stated in the materials distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.

The Russian Defense Ministry has presented a video of the launch of a Soyuz-2 class launch vehicle with a spacecraft. The launch took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.

A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The Starlink company intends to provide the entire Earth with satellite Internet by the fall. This is reported by Reuters.

Masten Space Systems is forced to postpone the launch of its lunar lander from 2022 to 2023. One of the reasons was the pandemic.

The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.

We are talking about a place on a Russian manned spacecraft for a flight to the ISS

NASA is working with partners from Russia and other countries to ensure the availability of a crew for the safe operation of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the US space Agency Stephanie Schirholz.

The instruments are intended for the Chinese mission to study the asteroid Kamoaleva

TASS, June 23. Specialists of the Institute of Space Research (IKI RAS) plan to develop three instruments for studying the plasma shells of asteroids and comets. They can be used in the Chinese space mission starting in 2024 to study the asteroid Kamoalev and comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro. This was told by the director of the ICI RAS Anatoly Petrukovich at an online meeting of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on space.

The American company Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted static fire tests of a solid-fuel engine for a rocket complex with OpFires hypersonic gliders. The engine can be turned off before all the fuel burns out, which will allow the missiles to reach any targets in the middle radius. According to the US Defense Advanced Development Agency, the tests were recognized as successful.