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Roscosmos head Rogozin: astronaut Hadfield wanted to meet with Russian President Putin

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spoke about his desire to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin wrote in his Telegram channel.

The absence of unnecessary tests in the development of space technology is a competitive advantage of SpaceX over the Russian space industry, said Vladimir Solovyov, general designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.

The United States is leaning towards the option of flooding the International Space Station (ISS) after the completion of its operation and has asked Russia to calculate options for station data from orbit, said Vladimir Solovyov, flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS.

According to Vladimir Solovyov, the general designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, an analog of such a withdrawal is the flight of the Berth node module to the ISS in November 2021

The Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) under development will be built in space with the help of special tugs. This was announced by Vladimir Solovyov, General Designer for manned space systems and complexes of Russia, General designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.

Former adviser to the head of GKA Kolesnik: Ukrainian satellite "Sich-2-30" was lost after launch

Launched for the first time in 11 years, the Ukrainian satellite Sich-2-30 is probably lost. This opinion was expressed by the former freelance adviser to the head of the State Space Agency (SCA) of Ukraine Andrey Kolesnik.

TASS: The United States issued an entry visa to Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub

Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub was issued an American visa after a scandal with non-receipt of documents for entry to the United States, TASS reports, referring to Roscosmos.

The Earth remote sensing system created on the basis of the BKA works steadily and fully fulfills its tasks, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov assured.

Roscosmos considers Cuba, Svalbard and Bellingshausen station in Antarctica as locations for tracking stations of the warning system about dangerous situations in orbit, follows from the data of the public procurement portal.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the construction should be completed by the end of the year

The construction of the second stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome, which includes the construction of a launch complex for launching the Angara launch vehicle, is carried out around the clock. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday.

It is being created for the new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle

The promising Fregat-SBU upper stage (RB), which is being created for the new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, will be ready for launch at the end of 2025. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the S. A. Lavochkin NGO (developer).

The Changzheng-4C launch vehicle launched the L-SAR 01 remote sensing satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit, the Chinese Television Network (CCTV) reported on Wednesday.

He delivered to Earth more than 2.2 tons of various cargoes, including the results of scientific experiments

The Dragon cargo ship of the American company SpaceX landed on water in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida. This was reported on Monday on the SpaceX Twitter page.

Lydia Ivanova, a researcher at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Research Institute, noted that changes in approaches to the selection and training of cosmonauts in long-term plans for the development of manned cosmonautics will be required.

The areas of falling of the separating parts of the rocket, according to calculations, are located between the village of Yar-Sale and the Port-Yakha factor, the village of Panaevsk and the Hadyt-Yakha factor

The first launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle in 2022 is scheduled for February 3 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, according to a message from the Yamal district network publication YATV in VKontakte.

According to the head of Roscosmos, there are already ideas on how to solve the problem, it will take two years

There is only one launch pad for Soyuz-2 launch vehicles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin clarified that the next launch of the Soyuz-5 will be in 2024 with an upper stage

The first payload of the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle will be the Stork satellite. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft is scheduled for 18:55 Moscow time on March 18

The Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch on March 18, will be named Korolev. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that the Angara-NJ will be located in the technical complex

Angara-NJ, which is a full-size model of the heavy Angara-A5, will be delivered to the Vostochny cosmodrome in the summer. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, now there are more than one and a half hundred Russian satellites in orbit together with the spacecraft of the Ministry of Defense, but "radar is needed"

The launch of the radar spacecraft "Obzor-R", previously scheduled for 2022, has been postponed to 2023. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.

Astronomers have made detailed observations of the magnetar SGR 1830-0645 from the ISS

An international group of astronomers made observations of the magnetar SGR 1830-0645 using the NICER instrument (Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR) on board the ISS. Preliminary results of the study are published in the arXiv preprint repository.