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[b]Astronomers assume that a large star or some other object is orbiting around them.]

The eROSITA telescope, installed on board the Russian-German space observatory "Spektr-RG", has discovered two galaxies, supermassive black holes in the center of which recently awoke and began to produce periodic flashes of light and energy. This is reported by the press service of the Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics of the Max Planck Society (MPE).

In Ukraine, they said that the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau is working on the latest Kilchen anti-aircraft missile system, which is allegedly an analog of the American Patriot air defense system.

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday, according to the specialized website Spaceflight Now.

Western countries, primarily Europe and the United States, may launch the Interstellar spacecraft into space in the early 2030s, partially repeating the mission tasks of Voyager-1 and Voyager-2, which left the Solar System, according to the European Union of Earth Sciences.

The issue of modernization is being worked out by the state Corporation "Roscosmos" with partners from Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates

The contract for the modernization of the Gagarin Launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome for the launch of Soyuz-2 launch vehicles will be designed for three years. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure (CENKI) Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov.

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

The Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle has launched a secret NROL-82 satellite into orbit for the benefit of the US National Office of Military Space Intelligence, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced.

For two and a half years, Russia has made 58 trouble - free launches of space rockets in a row, which allowed us to repeat the record set back in 1992-1993. This was reported on April 27 by RIA Novosti.

[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.