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At the Baikonur cosmodrome, the space head part was transported with the Soyuz MS-18 transport manned spacecraft for the general assembly of a space rocket, the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia reported on Sunday.

A joint development between NASA and ESA, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, launched in February last year, made its first approach to the star. According to the mission program, it will approach the sun every six months.

The project of the American space corporation SpaceX to regularly launch small satellites at a single price using Falcon 9 rockets will begin to make a profit by the end of the first year. This conclusion was reached by specialists of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, who studied the initiative of Elon Musk's company, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian military satellite "Kosmos-2525" descended from near-Earth orbit and burned up in the atmosphere, TASS reports, referring to the Command of the Aerospace Defense of North America.

"Amur" will be the successor of the Soyuz rocket, said the Executive director of Roscosmos for Advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko

The preliminary design stage of the Amur rocket will end in September. This was stated on Saturday in the program "Big Space" on the channel "Roscosmos-TV" Executive Director of Roscosmos for Advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

The organization "Signal", part of the concern "Automation" of the state corporation "Rostec", robotized welding processes at the enterprise. This was reported on April 2 by the correspondent of "RIA Novosti".

The event will be held in June

The organizers of the Global Conference on Space Exploration, which will be held in June in St. Petersburg, sent an invitation to the event to the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk. This was stated by the executive director of the International Astronautical Federation Christian Feichtinger at a press conference on Friday.

Currently, the paper stage of developing technical proposals for funds that can be included in the NAZ is underway, said the executive director of the state Corporation for Manned space programs.

General Director of NPO Mashinostroyeniya Alexander Leonov said that there are export orders for "Condors"

The launches of the Condor-FKA radar satellites are scheduled for 2022 and 2023. This was announced on Friday by the General Director, General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya (part of the corporation " Tactical Missile Weapons") Alexander Leonov.

Enterprises of the space industry are suffering losses due to the restriction of access to critical technologies, which is caused by sanctions, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy General Director of Roscosmos for Finance.

Research and Production Association (NPO) "Energomash" has completed a three-month cycle of eight fire tests of the first finishing liquid rocket power unit RD-171MV, known as the "tsar-engine". This is reported by Roscosmos.

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have created a technology for producing a complex composite that can be used to protect the electronics of space satellites. This was told to RIA "Tomsk" by Professor of TPU Oleg Khasanov.

The launch of two Condor-FKA radar Earth observation satellites has been postponed for 2022 and 2023, according to Roscosmos materials published on the state procurement website.

The first spacecraft of the new satellite system "Arktika-M", launched at the end of February and already sending unique images of northern latitudes from a highly elliptical orbit, will also make it possible to predict space weather.

Today, the next flight tests of the prototype of the reusable Starship spacecraft took place. They proved to be a failure on several points at once. And if the problems during the online broadcast from Boca Chica can be forgiven, then the fourth consecutive loss of an aircraft is depressing.

The data transmitted by the telescope was combined into a single catalog

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 2,241 potentially habitable planets in two years in orbit, in addition to those NASA already knew about. This was reported on Friday by the Internet portal Space.com with reference to the statement of a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who are working together with NASA on the implementation of this project.

The United States recognized the loss of superiority over Russia in the electromagnetic struggle

The United States has lost its superiority in conducting operations in the electromagnetic spectrum, according to a report by the American Accounting Chamber. At the same time, as analysts write, Moscow and Beijing are the main challenges in this area for Washington. "Newspaper.Ru " dealt with the details of this document.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has presented a robot-caver DAEDALUS, which in the near future will be engaged in the study of lunar caves.

On March 25, 2021, the US Navy announced that it had received the first commercially upgraded Tomahawk cruise missile of the new Block V modification. The Tomahawk Block V cruise missiles are an upgrade of the existing Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles, which are being upgraded at the Raytheon Technologies Corporation facility in Camden, Arkansas.

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov photographed from space the container ship Ever Given, which previously ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal. He posted a photo from the International Space Station (ISS) on his Twitter page.