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Roscosmos State Corporation responded to the sanctions imposed by the West

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, responded to the US and European sanctions imposed on the state corporation after the start of the Russian special operation in the Donbass. So, Russia has already suspended rocket launches from the Kourou cosmodrome and will stop supplying engines to the United States.

Roscosmos has published declassified documents of the Venus-13 mission

"Gazeta.Ru" got acquainted with declassified documents about the Venus-13 program and tells how the historical mission was being prepared and what problems happened on the way to the neighboring planet.

One of the main types of weapons used by the Russian Armed Forces to defeat the IG* in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) were cruise missiles (KR). Surface ships and submarines of the Russian Navy have repeatedly struck Islamist targets in Syria using the 3M-14 Kalibr cruise missile.

Rogozin announced the direction of Roscosmos resources for the creation of defense systems

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that the state corporation will direct the resources released after the suspension of the participation of Western partners in joint projects with Russia to create defense systems.

The collision will occur on March 4 with the reverse side of the Earth satellite

Timur Nozdrachev, a student of the Institute of High-Tech Technologies and Advanced Materials of the Far Eastern Federal University (INTiPM FEFU), and scientists from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPA RAS) as part of an international team predicted the fall of object WE0913A to the Moon. The collision will occur on March 4, 2022 with the reverse side of the Earth satellite, the press service of the university told TASS on Wednesday.

The launch will take place if Russia receives guarantees of non-use of satellites for military purposes by Friday evening. In addition, the space agency demanded that the UK withdraw from the shareholders of OneWeb.

NASA said that they will not have time to land on the moon until 2026

The Inspector General of NASA criticized the American lunar program. Speaking to US lawmakers, he said that the Artemis program required several billion dollars more than planned, and people will not be on the surface of the Moon until 2026.

Roscosmos will focus the resources released due to the curtailment of cooperation with Europe and the United States on the creation of defense systems, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

NASA reported that mission control centers are conducting joint training

Coordination between NASA and Roscosmos is proceeding normally, despite the aggravation of relations between the United States and the Russian Federation against the background of the situation around Ukraine, the head of NASA's manned flight program, Kathy Luders, said on Monday.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has agreed with the private aerospace company SpaceX to add three additional missions to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon ships.

The launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites is scheduled for March 5 at 01:41 Moscow Time

The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle for the launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites will be taken to the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos.

Roscosmos will bill Europe for losses due to the shutdown of the Spectrum-RG telescope

Roscosmos will bill Europe for losses due to the shutdown of one of the two telescopes of the Spectrum-RG observatory, TASS reports, referring to the state corporation.

Izvestia: the technical divorce of the national segments of the ISS can be carried out at least a year

If necessary, the technical separation of the national segments of the International Space Station (ISS) can be carried out at least in one year, the head of the Institute of Space Policy Ivan Moiseev told Izvestia.

The state corporation compared partners with ostriches

The sanctions imposed by the European side are causing real losses to Roscosmos. The state corporation will evaluate them and put them up for payment to partners in Europe, the press service of Roscosmos told TASS.

Another joint space program for Russia and the West, apparently, will be suspended due to the military operation in Ukraine.

Among them is the first flight rocket "Angara-A5" for the Vostochny cosmodrome

More than 10 Angara launch vehicles are currently in production at Polet Software (a branch of the Khrunichev Center). This was stated by the General Director of the M. V. Khrunichev Center Alexey Brewho.

The helicopter covered almost 4.3 km in a year

The Ingenuity helicopter has already completed 20 flights during its year on Mars, covering a total of 4,227 meters. This was announced on Tuesday on its website by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), located in Pasadena, California.

The extension of the agreement on the operation of the ISS under sanctions causes skepticism, the press service of Roscosmos told Interfax on Tuesday.

NASA experts are studying ways to keep the International Space Station in orbit without the participation of Russia. Nevertheless, the ministry does not see any immediate signs that Moscow refuses to cooperate on the project.

Among them are technical reports on ground tests and preparation for spacecraft launches, reports on electrical tests, flight assignments, letters from the Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.