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[b]All the satellites entered the specified orbit, the Xinhua news agency reported.]

China on Tuesday successfully launched a carrier rocket "Changzheng-6" (CZ-6, Long March-6) with nine commercial satellites. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency.

More detailed studies of them will begin in June this year

Preliminary analysis of the fragments of the asteroid Ryugu says that they may contain organic substances. These samples were delivered to Earth by the Japanese spacecraft "Hayabusa-2", reports NHK.

It was postponed due to an unfavorable weather forecast

The manned Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American company SpaceX will land on May 1, a few days later than planned. This was announced on Monday by the press service of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

[b]According to the company, the solution eliminates opportunities for competition, significantly narrows the supply base and threatens America's return to the moon.]

The aerospace company Blue Origin of the American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, who is the richest man in the world, on Monday challenged the decision of NASA to grant a contract for the development and creation of a lunar lander worth $2.9 billion to the American company SpaceX.

The head of Roscosmos allowed cross-flights not on a commercial basis

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, ruled out the possibility of carrying out flights of Russian cosmonauts only on American ships, but allowed cross-flights not on a commercial basis.

The first navigation spacecraft of the new generation, Glonass-K2, will be launched into orbit at the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolai Testoedov.

Specialists of the Research Center at the state aerospace company China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) have developed an exoskeleton for firefighters involved in extinguishing forest fires.

The program for creating a Russian-Chinese station on an Earth satellite involves three main stages. The implementation of the first of them should begin this year.

[b]After the completion of the separation and separation of the spacecraft, the Fregat upper stage will be taken out of orbit, and the fireproof elements will be flooded in the uninhabited part of the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos reported.]

All 36 British OneWeb satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket have been successfully launched into their calculated orbits using the Fregat upper stage. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in his Telegram channel.

China has decided to conduct a lunar mission "Chang'e-6" in 2024. This will be the second Chinese return mission to a satellite of our planet.

Roscosmos is not negotiating flights of Russian cosmonauts to the ISS on Crew Dragon ships developed by SpaceX, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday.

The acting head of NASA, Steve Yurchik, in an interview with Spaceflight Now, called the possible dates of flights of Russian cosmonauts on the American spacecraft Crew Dragon and Starliner.

The head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, called it a matter of honor to deliver Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti reports, referring to the statement of the businessman and engineer made during the live broadcast of the launch of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has received data from a 1.8 million square km satellite survey taken from April 15 to 24 in emergency situations, Roscosmos said on Saturday.

This is the third flight of a SpaceX spacecraft to the ISS with a crew on board

SpaceX's Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with four astronauts on board docked on Saturday to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast is conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

To create the station, China plans to carry out 11 launches in the next two years

The heavy launch vehicle "Changzheng 5B" (CZ-5B) for the launch of the main module of the Chinese space station on Friday was sent to the launch pad of the Wenchang cosmodrome, located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island. This was reported by the newspaper "Chinese Cosmonautics".

For the first time, Roscosmos refused to launch a satellite to a customer due to the maximum load of production facilities. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the organization Dmitry Rogozin.

The head of Roscosmos previously reported that RSC Energia set the task of ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025

The new manned spacecraft with the crew "Eagle" can fly in 2025 not to the International Space Station (ISS), but to the Russian station, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Friday.

[b]Russia will use it simultaneously with the ISS, Roscosmos Executive Director for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko said.]

Russia will simultaneously use the International Space Station (ISS) and the new space station for several years. This was reported to journalists on Friday by the executive director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

In the 1990s and later, the United States and its allies depended on Russia for practical technologies of modular space stations, manned space exploration and cargo delivery to near-Earth space, which is no longer observed at the present time, says the British newspaper Financial Times.