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A prototype of the Vitacycle-T greenhouse for growing edible biomass on the ISS will be ready next year, the press service of the high-Tech research Institute of inorganic materials named after academician A. A. Bochvar reported.

The ground-based Subaru telescope was able to see in the sky the Japanese interplanetary station Hayabusa-2, which is supposed to drop a capsule with the substance of the asteroid Ryugu into the atmosphere of our planet on December 5. The images obtained by the telescope helped clarify the station's trajectory, according to the telescope's website.

The dangerous approach of the spacecraft occurred, according to Roscosmos, at 04: 49 (Moscow time) on November 27. The minimum distance between the two remote sensing satellites — the Russian "Canopus-B" and the Indian Cartosat-2F — was only 224 meters.

Failure of universal scale

We can no longer compete in space with other leading powers in this field. Alexander Sergeev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, summed up this sad conclusion at a meeting of the state Duma Committee on education and science on Wednesday.

The specialists of Rocket-space Corporation "Energy" I think that after 2025 the costs of the ISS are not adequately use the station, and the project will have to terminate, said Deputy Director General of the Corporation Vladimir Solovyov.

The international space station (ISS) is capable of operating for quite a long time, but a number of modules may have to be replaced, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin

The US has prepared a new sanctions list, which includes the Russian defense Ministry and 28 companies. These are mainly enterprises that are engaged in civil aircraft construction and cosmonautics. For some reason, the forensic center of the police Department in the Nizhny Novgorod region also got in there. What guided the authors of the new anti-Russian sanctions and will they be painful for Russia?

The Russian cargo spacecraft Progress MS-14 will set a record for the longest stay in space. This was reported on November 25 by RIA Novosti with reference to the preliminary work program of the International space station (ISS).

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a new batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-earth orbit on Wednesday morning Moscow time, designed to continue deploying the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.

Chairman of the Board of Xian Huanyu Satellite Control and Data Application Co Bai Yiwei believes that "in the future, Hainan will become one of the key places in the space industry"

More than 200 companies have started working on the territory of the remote sensing data industrial Park in Sanya (Hainan province, southern China). This was reported by the Hainan daily.

SpaceX made a record seventh launch of the same first stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. After launch, It returned to the Autonomous marine platform Of Course I Still Love You.

The first Russian mission "Luna-25" to a natural satellite of the Earth "would have looked good at the beginning of 2000", and now the Chinese Chang'e 4 is less ambitious, Jonathan McDowell, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics (USA), told RIA Novosti.

the US prepared to impose sanctions against the Russian defense Ministry

The Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, institutes of the state Corporation Rosatom, two Roscosmos enterprises and a number of other organizations may fall under US sanctions, media reports with reference to the draft version of the corresponding draft "black list". Washington has already imposed sanctions against Russia twice this month.

such disorders can lead to malfunctions in the liver or heart

TASS, November 25. Observations of twin astronauts Scott and mark Kelly and dozens of other ISS crew members have shown that after a long life in space, a person may begin to have problems with the operation of mitochondria - the main power stations of the cell. The article with the results of the work was published by the scientific journal Cell.

The Chinese government considers the moon and outer space to be the universal heritage of mankind and supports their peaceful development, said the Deputy head Of the center for lunar research and space engineering of the Chinese national space administration.

the Deputy Head Of the center for lunar research and space engineering of the Chinese national space administration said that the Chinese authorities ' spending on space will increase

Chinese authorities and government experts are discussing the possibility of sending astronauts to the moon in the near future and choosing the right moment "in accordance with scientific tasks and taking into account economic factors."

state Corporation Funding reduces its own mistakes

When the state Duma begins approving the state budget, the question of reducing funding for domestic space exploration is constantly raised. Every year.

at the same time, the Director General of Roscosmos noted a sharp drop in the responsibility and quality of suppliers ' work [/b]

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin confirmed the discovery of a defective valve in the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou cosmodrome and the prevention of an accident during its launch.

The Soyuz rocket, which was previously found to have an accident-threatening malfunction, will be taken to the launch pad of the Kourou cosmodrome on Wednesday, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said.

the History of work on projects of various reusable aerospace systems goes back more than a dozen years. In April 1981, the first flight into orbit of the American Space Shuttle took place, and a little later the winged Buran flew into space.