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The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, previously announced plans to launch one Soyuz rocket from Vostochny in May, June and July.]

The Soyuz launch vehicle will next be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on July 1. This was announced on Saturday by the General Director of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" Dmitry Baranov.

NASA's budget for 2022 does not provide for the purchase of additional seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for flights to the International Space Station (ISS), but the United States hopes to continue flights on mutual exchange. This was announced on May 28 by a representative of NASA.

This is the seventh launch of OneWeb satellites and the fourth fully commercial launch from the Eastern

All British OneWeb communications satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket have successfully separated from the Fregat upper stage. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Saturday.

The re-equipment is carried out in order to organize workplaces for conducting electrical tests of all modifications of the units

Technical re-equipment of the Fregat upper stage test base (RBF) will be completed by the end of 2022. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the NGO named after S. A. Lavochkin.

The successful launch of the Soyuz launch vehicle with 36 British OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome on May 29 was the 59th consecutive accident-free Russian space launch, according to calculations by RIA Novosti.

The new head of NASA, Bill Nelson, called Russia a vital partner in the International Space Station, he said at a briefing on May 28, his words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

On June 16, a session of the Global Interaction Forum will be held, which will be dedicated to the International Space Station

The prospects for manned space flights and the future of the International Space Station (ISS) will be discussed at the Global Space Exploration Conference GLEX in St. Petersburg. This was reported by TASS Deputy Director of Roscosmos for International Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

Two Resurs-P Earth remote sensing satellites will be launched next year, said Valery Zaichko, deputy director of the Department of Navigation Space Systems of the state Corporation Roscosmos.

Three launch vehicles were launched from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021, which is a record. Previously, a maximum of two launches per year were carried out from the cosmodrome.

The company said that it had established communication with all 36 satellites put into orbit on the night of May 29

The British company OneWeb will be able to start providing communication services after the next launch of its satellites into low-Earth orbit.

The first prototype methane engine for the new reusable launch vehicle Amur-LNG will be manufactured and tested by November 2025, according to materials posted on the state procurement website.

It worked for more than 3 thousand seconds

The new rocket engine was able to run on tests for more than 3 thousand seconds, which is a record. This was announced by the chief designer of JSC "KB Khimavtomatiki" Viktor Gorokhov on the air of the program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda".

Russia has tested a rocket engine that can run for more than three thousand seconds (50 minutes), making it a record-breaking long-running engine. This is reported by TASS.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Wednesday successfully launched another batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.

Roscosmos and CNSA announced the signing of a memorandum of cooperation on the creation of an international station in early March

Roscosmos and the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) have invited partners to the International Lunar Science Station (ISS) project and expect to receive a response at the Global Space Exploration Conference GLEX in St. Petersburg. This was reported by TASS Deputy General Director of the State Corporation for International Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

[b]The implementation of the Artemis and Lunar Gateway programs "will demonstrate the technical capabilities for a future human mission to Mars," according to an agreement between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.]

The Canadian astronaut will become a member of the Artemis 2 program of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration( NASA), and Canada will also send a lunar rover to the Moon in the next five years. This was announced on Wednesday on Twitter by the Minister for Innovation, Science and Industry of the country Francois-Philippe Champagne.

It was withdrawn for maintenance on May 25

The Glonass-M spacecraft No. 732 (23rd point) was transferred from maintenance to the main part of the orbital group. This is stated on the website of the Information and Analytical Center for Coordinate-time and Navigation Support.

The American company SpaceX has conducted 100 successful launches of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket in a row, according to Ars Technica. The publication notes that the last launch of the carrier took place on May 26, when the Starlink satellites were delivered to Earth orbit.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia for the Moscow Region has completed investigative actions in a criminal case on the theft of more than 1 billion rubles in supplies for the scientific and energy module (NEM) of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Wednesday, May 26, according to Kommersant.

According to the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, hurricanes have become more destructive due to the process of global warming

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is creating a new Earth system observatory to predict and monitor climate change and natural disasters. This is stated in a statement issued on Monday by the press service of NASA.