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Spektra-RG Data allow scientists to conclude that black holes can directly affect the rate of star birth in galaxies

TASS, December 9. The Spektr-RG orbiting Observatory has found giant globular clusters of gas above and below the milky Way's core that emit x-rays.

"Bereshit-2", according to the developers ' plans, should land in 2024

Israel plans to launch its second lunar station, Bereshit-2, in 2024. SpaceIL writes about This on Twitter.

the US is preparing, Russia is fantasizing, China is flying

On the first day of December, the Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. After the lunar landing, he began collecting samples of lunar soil. At the moment, the samples have already been collected and the take-off module has successfully put them into lunar orbit.

The United States, following China, plans to launch a mission to collect lunar soil. NASA has announced that four companies have won contracts to mine lunar rocks, according to Guancha. Attention is drawn to the amounts of these contracts. For example, one of the companies is ready to implement a mission for just one dollar.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos state Corporation, reported on preparations for the launch of the ExoMars interplanetary space station as part of a joint search with the European space Agency (ESA) for traces of life on the red planet.

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos, said that all three Gonets-M communications satellites launched on Thursday were put into their calculated orbits and taken over.

The Soyuz-2.1 b rocket with Gonets-M communications satellites and a device in the interests of the Ministry of defense launched from the launch pad N 3 of the Plesetsk State test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The launch was carried out by a combat crew of the VKS Space forces.

Construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome is being delayed, is being violated, in particular, by numerous corruption scandals, and is costing the Russian budget more and more, ArsTechnica writes in a publication devoted to the latest layoffs that occurred at Roscosmos.

The development of additive technologies will make it possible to develop a highly efficient system for manufacturing rocket and space technology

Regolith and space debris can be used in the future as a material for 3D printing technology. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital group and promising projects Yuri Urlichich.

The Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle with Gonets-M communications satellites and the service platform of the ERA-1 nanoscale spacecraft developed for the Russian defense Ministry launched on December 3 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Video from the launch site was published by REN TV.

He made one and a half turns and found the enemy in orbit. The explosion - and instead of the spy satellite, 27 shapeless fragments flew. On December 3, 1971, the Soviet Union successfully tested the satellite Fighter program.

The European space Agency has signed a contract with the Swiss startup ClearSpace and provided $68 million in funding for the project. This is the first mission to clean up near-earth space from failed satellites and other space debris. The device itself, which will do this, received the working name "Claw" (Claw).

Startup NewRocket has learned how to turn kerosene into a gel to create a safe, convenient, high-energy and environmentally friendly rocket fuel.

The Chinese Chang'e-5 probe landed gently on the surface of the moon

The Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. In the near future, it will start drilling the ground to deliver samples to Earth. If everything goes smoothly, China will become the third country to deliver a piece of the moon to Earth.

The revolutionary project that is currently being developed in Russia has clearly got in the way of US space ambitions. At the very least, it is difficult to interpret the new anti-Russian sanctions that are being planned by the trump administration today in any other way. Why is the Russian "nuclear tug" so bothering America – and what antidote could be devised in response?

the group's Activities will exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality construction works

Roscosmos created a control and audit group to exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality work during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS in the state Corporation.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?