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Ingenuity will continue to fly on the Red Planet and assist the Perseverance rover mission for at least another six months, until September 2022. Along the way, he will continue to test his capabilities and break records for altitude and duration of flight, which will provide invaluable data for designing the structures of future Martian aircraft.

JSC "Russian Space Systems" (RKS) announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in PJSC "Yaroslavl Radio Plant". According to the press service of the enterprise, the deal will allow RKS holding to increase production capacity for serial production of an expandable range of space products.

The European Space Agency has selected a team of five European companies that will design and create the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from regolith on the surface of the Moon. It is expected that in 10 days of work on board the lunar lander, she will receive 50-100 grams of oxygen from the lunar regolith, according to the agency's website.

At the end of August 2016, the Ukrainian state-owned Antonov company and the Chinese AICC Corporation signed an agreement on cooperation on the program of the AN-225 "Mriya" heavy transport aircraft of ultra-large payload.

Now the partnership on the ISS is going through the hardest test. Seven crew members of the 66th expedition — four Americans, two Russians and a German - have to turn a blind eye to the political split on Earth in order to continue cooperation. Their lives depend on it, writes Vanity Fair.

55 years ago, on March 10, 1967, a three-stage Proton-K heavy class launch vehicle was launched for the first time from the Baikonur cosmodrome. During its more than half a century-long career, Proton has launched into space all stations of the Salyut and Almaz series, modules of the Mir and ISS stations, many heavy communications satellites, as well as scientific and defense devices. About how the space heavy truck was created - in the material of TASS.

The European Space Agency has summed up the results of a competition for projects to create a technology and an experimental installation for producing oxygen on an Earth satellite. The winner was assigned to develop a working prototype of a device that will extract oxygen from the lunar regolith for astronauts to breathe and use as fuel for spacecraft.

Someone finally said out loud about the real price

NASA Inspector General Paul Martin acted as an independent expert on the activities of the space agency. For most of his tenure as Inspector General, since his appointment in 2009, Martin has overseen NASA's development of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

The National Interest (USA): Will America be able to adapt to the era of multipolarity?

TNI writes that the unipolar world has sunk into oblivion. America must adapt to the new conditions, otherwise it will turn into an ordinary world power that will not withstand the pressure of China and Russia.

The Russian edition of Forbes magazine published the material by Katerina Terekhova and Alexey Dertev "Prohibition on development: how will Russian technologies survive without semiconductors", which states that the refusal of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC from cooperation with Russia means that it will be difficult for Russian companies to implement the planned import substitution program in the IT field.

According to the scientific director of the project Rashid Syunyaev, the German eROSITA telescope is in safe mode

The Russian Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope at the Spektr-RG Space Observatory (SRG) can observe X-ray sources of interest to scientists or scan certain areas of the sky while the German eROSITA telescope is turned off. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Spektr-RG project Rashid Syunyaev.

Researchers of the US Air Force will develop a satellite for regular patrolling of the circumlunar space. This will expand the permanent presence of the United States up to the far side of the moon, writes Ars Technica. For the first time, the US military has begun expanding the operational zone in space.

The CEO of Roscosmos stressed that the state corporation will do everything to continue the implementation of priority tasks

The blame for the collapse of space cooperation lies on the shoulders of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. This was stated on Thursday on the air of Channel One by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia is stopping the supply of rocket engines to the United States of America and will not conduct joint experiments with German colleagues on the ISS, Dmitry Rogozin announced.

Global satellite operators pose information security risks

The emergence of new threats and risks, directly or indirectly related to the emergence of multi-satellite low-orbit groupings and the escalation of the problem of oversaturation of near-Earth orbits with objects of artificial origin, today exists in three self-sufficient dimensions.

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.