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The head of ESA, Josef Aschbacher, stressed that the ISS provides "unique opportunities for conducting research in space"

The European Space Agency (ESA) expects that the International Space Station (ISS) will continue its work until 2030. This was stated to journalists on Tuesday by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.

The asteroid has a complex non-spherical shape

The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has clarified the parameters of the potentially dangerous kilometer asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), which is approaching the Earth. This is stated in the message of the institute, distributed on Tuesday.

Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov found the last leak site in the module compartment, so the partners' concern is not justified, the state corporation noted

Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov found the last place of the leak in the compartment of the Zvezda module on the ISS, after the delivery of special means it will be eliminated. The concern of the partners is not justified, Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, told reporters on Tuesday.

The Americans are preparing a new rocket-carrying aircraft for hypersonic. On January 17, the press service of Stratolaunch LLC announced the successful completion of the third stage of flight tests of the Roc giant aircraft.

This may indicate that the rocks of Gale crater were formed in conditions similar to those on Earth. But in order to assert this, additional conditions are needed

The Curiosity rover measured the proportions of carbon isotopes in Martian methane molecules extracted from several dozen samples of Martian rocks. Its isotopic composition turned out to be close to the gas produced by terrestrial bacteria, the results of the study were published by the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

NATO intends to integrate outer space into the Alliance's collective security and defense system together with cyberspace, as well as the sea, air and land environment

NATO has decided to extend the principles of collective defense to outer space, including the application of the fifth article of the Washington Treaty, including a collective military response to an attack on one of the alliance countries.

NASA announced the reduction of the astronaut squad to 44 people

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has taken care of reducing the number of astronauts. This is reported by Futurism with reference to the NASA report.

A bioprinter will be tested on the ISS to create bandages from the skin of astronauts

Astronauts of the International Space Station (ISS) will test the Bioprint FirstAid device, which allows you to create organic bandages. This is reported on the NASA website.

Today, the innovative electric steelmaking complex Interpipe Steel is 10 years old. It was on January 17, 2012 that the first melting of metal was made at the plant.

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle is scheduled for February 10

More than 30 British OneWeb communications satellites have been delivered to the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana as part of their preparations for launch on the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket on February 10. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid explained that NASA had offered Israel "to sign an international treaty on the study of the Moon and Mars, as well as comets and asteroids"

The Israeli government and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA are preparing to sign the so-called "Artemis Agreements" on joint space exploration, in particular the Moon and Mars, as well as asteroids and comets. This was announced on Sunday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid.

An American giant two-body aircraft designed for aerial launches of reusable hypersonic gliders made its third successful test flight on Sunday, the developer company Stratolaunch Systems said.

Chinese scientists have created a camera simulating the low gravity of the moon

Chinese scientists have created a special camera to simulate the conditions of low gravity of the Moon. This is reported by the South China Morning Post.

This is the second postponement of the start

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has decided to postpone the first launch of the new H3 space rocket, which was planned to be carried out until the end of March. This was reported on Monday by the Kyodo news agency.

CASC announced the launch of the Shiyan-13 spacecraft into orbit

The Chinese spacecraft "Shiyan-13" was successfully put into orbit. The launch of the Changzheng-2D launch vehicle with the spacecraft took place on January 17. This is reported by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Interfax reports.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has assigned the "Top Secret" stamp to the case on the claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense, demanding to recover more than 3.9 billion rubles from Samara JSC "Progress Rocket and Space Center", the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles and other space technology.

The rocket will be possible to launch from a mobile launch complex

The working group of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University has developed a conceptual image of an ultralight class launch vehicle (SLC). This is stated in the theses to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings).

Conditionally pathogenic bacteria and mold forms of fungi were found among them

Scientists of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) The Russian Academy of Sciences has been conducting research on samples from the inner surface of the Zarya functional cargo unit (FGB) of the ISS for several years and found more than 20 types of microorganisms there. This is stated in the theses to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S.P. Korolev (Royal Readings).

This method refers to passive methods of combating space debris

The S. A. Lavochkin NGO (part of Roscosmos) proposed using universal inflatable modules to take out of orbit spacecraft that have developed a resource. This is stated in the theses to the report of the company's specialists to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S.P. Korolev (Royal Readings).

The European Space Agency has completed a critical review of the new PLATO space Observatory project. It is expected that it will be launched into space in 2026 and in 4 years of operation will observe more than 200 thousand stars, exploring the properties of exoplanets around them, according to the agency's website.