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The European Space Agency (ESA) is ending its previously suspended cooperation with the Russian state corporation Roscosmos on the ExoMars-2022 Mars program, the head of the agency, Josef Aschbacher, said on Tuesday.

In response, the Russian ISS crew stops working with ERA, a remote—controlled robotic arm developed by the European Space Agency.

During the tests of the first stage of the superheavy Starship rocket, an explosion occurred under its engine block. The rocket did not collapse, but the launch pad, apparently, received minor damage, so the tests were stopped.

The completion of the construction of the second stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome with a launch table for the Angara family of rockets will allow launching from Russia all spacecraft weighing from three to 27 tons. This was announced by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin, reports TASS.

As part of the Artemis program, it is planned to create an inhabited station in orbit around the Moon. Since the gravitational field of the Earth's satellite has strong local disturbances, it is difficult for the spacecraft to stay in lunar orbits for a long time. To test one of the possible stable trajectories, NASA launched the CAPSTONE mission, but almost immediately after separation from the upper stage, communication with the probe disappeared.

Following the current trends in the development of military affairs, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Turkey is making active efforts to digitalize the troops.

NASA has condemned the use of the International Space Station (ISS) for political purposes. The agency commented on the photo of Russian cosmonauts at the station with the flag of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), writes the Washington Post (WP) with reference to the agency's statement.

RAS continues to insist on cooperation with German scientists

The inclusion by Russian specialists of the German eROSITA telescope, which is part of the Russian orbital observatory "Spectrum-RG", will not take place in the near future, the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev told Interfax.

Taiwan's central News Agency reported on the test of a hybrid HTTP-3A rocket designed to launch mini-satellites into orbit, TASS reports.

Planetary scientists and engineers from the University of Arizona presented a project of a glider that can fly for a long time in the atmosphere of Mars, studying the canyons. It is assumed that two such devices with inflatable deployable wings can be launched from a balloon or airship. The article was published in the journal Aerospace.

For the first time, China has used a sail to lift elements of a spent launch vehicle from orbit. At the end of June, the upper stage of the Changzheng-2D launch vehicle deployed a 25-square-meter sail that will help it get out of orbit faster, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

After the liberation of Lisichansk, parts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the People's militia of the LPR came close to Seversk – the last relatively large settlement covering the way to Slavyansk. What does this mean and how can events develop in the central sector of the front in the near future? There is reason to believe that we are witnessing the beginning of major military events.

The first space telescope of JSC — Orbiting Astronomical Observatory was put into orbit in 1966, thanks to which the study of deep space received a powerful impulse. His work was continued by the legendary Hubble, Chandra, Fermi, TESS (NASA projects), the Russian-German Spektr-RG, and at the end of last year NASA launched a new space observatory into orbit — the James Webb telescope.

If you often have your head in the clouds, then NASA has a job for you! In an effort to unravel the mysteries of the Martian atmosphere, the space agency decided to enlist the support of the public in a new project Cloudspotting on Mars.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has presented 13 candidates for new space missions in the fields of astrophysics, exoplanetology, heliophysics and solar system research. If the projects are approved, they can be created and launched into space in the period from 2025 to 2030. The description of the projects is published in the Chinese Journal of Space Science.

Robotics Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Southern California) Ethan Shaler proposed to study the subglacial oceans on the Europa and Enceladus satellites with the help of a swarm of tiny robots. According to the idea of the specialist, the robots will be inside a probe tunneling into the icy crust of the satellite, and then will be released into the water when the "mother ship" reaches the ocean. This is reported in a press release on the official website of the laboratory.

The development of an on-board search and rescue radio complex of a new generation, the launch of the integration of the GLONASS medium-orbital satellite constellation into the COSPAS-SARSAT system and the beginning of the creation of a network of ground stations for receiving signals on board the GLONASS, GPS, Galileo and Beidou medium-orbital navigation satellites are the main achievements of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), With which the company celebrates the 40th anniversary of the successful launch of the domestic COSPAS-1 spacecraft.

The current situation in cosmonautics resonates in an interesting way with what happened half a century ago, when humanity achieved the incredible — stepped on the moon. The participants of the new space race are not so motivated, and the stakes are lower, but it's still interesting to watch this almost friendly competition.

The director of the M.V. Khrunichev Center Alexey Brewhenko told about the work on the "Angara-A5"

At the second stage of the preliminary design of the Amur space rocket complex, which includes the Angara launch vehicles, a rocket-dynamic landing method of the first and second stages was considered, which, after testing, could land on a special landing pad, Gazeta reported.Ru" General Director of M.V. Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center Alexey Brewhenko. He also spoke about the work on the Angara-A5 flight rocket for the Vostochny cosmodrome and its full-size copy.

The Council for Grants to provide state support for the creation and development of advanced engineering schools has selected 30 higher educational institutions, the government website reported on Thursday.