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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.

NASA has approved the start of development of the preliminary design of the NEO Surveyor infrared space telescope, which will go into space in 2026. It is expected that in 12 years of operation, the telescope will help bring the number of known potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids with a diameter of more than 140 meters from 40 to 90 percent of their total number in this size range, according to the NASA website.

The international scientific lunar station of Russia and China will be deployed until 2035, then its operation will begin. This is reported in the presentation that the parties presented on June 16 at the International Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021, the video concept of the station was published on the YouTube channel of Roscosmos.

Cosmonauts can be launched from the spaceport to fly to the Chinese space station

To launch manned spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, a significant modernization of the infrastructure will be required, it may take several years, the adviser to the General director of Roscosmos, Sergey Krikalev, told Interfax.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the second document that will be sent to the government will be a version of the lunar program using a four-launch flight scheme on the Angara launch vehicle.

For manned programs, the corporation plans to use the Soyuz-2 launch complex, which is located in Guiana

Roscosmos is negotiating the possible future use of the Kourou cosmodrome for manned launches. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the press conference of the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

US sanctions restricting the supply of microelectronics have affected dozens of Russian spacecraft, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said.

Washington should closely monitor the joint activities of Moscow and Beijing in outer space. This opinion was expressed by the director of the American space Agency NASA Bill Nelson on Tuesday, June 15, during the press conference GLEX-2021.

Cooperation between the countries continues, said the head of the organization, Bill Nelson

The cooperation between Russia and the United States in space, despite all the existing contradictions between Moscow and Washington, demonstrates what positive results the two countries can achieve if they go beyond political differences.

Members of the cosmonaut squad will join the new department of expertise, which will control the creation of spacecraft for manned cosmonautics, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters.

Beijing "is exploring opportunities to make an even greater contribution to the development of cosmonautics together with the Russian side"

China is confident in the prospects for expanding cooperation with Russia in space in many areas. This was stated on Wednesday by the assistant head of the Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Ji Qiming.

China plans to send a crew of three astronauts to the space station under construction on June 17, Ji Qiming, a representative of the Chinese Manned Flight Program, told reporters.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the largest partner with which negotiations are being conducted is the European Space Agency

Russia and China are negotiating with many partners on the possibility of their participation in the project of the International Scientific Lunar Station. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the press conference of the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin spoke about the agreement with NASA CEO Bill Nelson to hold the first face-to-face talks in the fall.

At the moment, the Arctic monitoring system, designed to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic region, has already been partially deployed

The Northern Sea Route will be constantly monitored by various satellites of the Russian space project "Sphere" by 2024-2025.

The General Director of the state corporation recalled that the Russian side has a decision to extend the operation of the station until 2024

The fate of the International Space Station (ISS) remains the subject of fierce debate in Roscosmos. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

We are talking about the period up to 2030

Russia will launch about 300 civilian spacecraft by 2030 to provide global communications and the Internet of Things. This is stated in the presentation of the First Deputy General Director of FSUE "Space Communications" Alexander Ganin, presented on Tuesday at the congress "Sphere" in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

In addition, the Marathon satellite system will begin trial operation in 2023

The Gonets satellite communication system is planned to be developed and nine more spacecraft will be launched in the next two years. This was announced by Maxim Diordiev, Head of the Satellite Systems Application Directorate of JSC "Satellite System "Gonets", at the "Sphere" congress within the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

The grouping will also include four high-resolution optical devices and four ultra-high-resolution devices

Fourteen spacecraft will be part of the orbital group for environmental monitoring of the Earth. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and promising projects of the State Corporation "Roscosmos" Yuri Urlichich.