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Rogozin on Twitter showed a car flying in outer space from Chelyabinsk

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed a car flying in outer space on Twitter. Thus, the manager illustrated the reporting for 2021 of the Ust-Katavsky Carriage Building Plant (UKVZ) from the Chelyabinsk Region, which is part of the state Corporation.

A total of seven OneWeb satellite launches are planned for 2022

The launch of the Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana will take place on the evening of February 10. The corresponding information was published on Thursday by the space launch operator Arianespace.

In August last year, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin reported that the landing of astronauts on the Moon in 2024 is not possible due, in particular, to delays in the development of spacesuits.

Roscosmos has decided on a test schedule for the promising Eagle spacecraft, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said.

The Russian space Agency told about the scheme of tests of rescue systems and landing of the ship "Eagle". During the tests, his return vehicle will be dropped four times from a helicopter.

According to the head of the state corporation, the work was carried out together with the redesign of the complex

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said that the state corporation had a very difficult time entering into the project of building a launch complex for the Angara launch vehicle at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

The CEO of Roscosmos noted that the tests will begin in 2023

The sequence of tests of the security system of the promising manned spacecraft "Eagle", which will be held at the Vostochny cosmodrome, has been finally approved. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

NASA postponed the first launch of the SLS rocket with the Orion spacecraft from February to March

The first launch of the superheavy Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, which is supposed to fly around the Moon and then return to Earth, is postponed from February 15 to mid-March. Ars Technica writes about this, referring to NASA.

The corporation noted that the technical possibility of the ISS arch from orbit has been studied since its creation

The technical capability of the ISS arch from orbit has been worked out since its creation. The decision on flooding will be made at the level of the governments of the participating countries of the project, the press service of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia told TASS.

RSC Energia said that the decision to flood the ISS will be made by all project participants

The possibility of flooding the International Space Station (ISS) from a technical point of view has been considered since its creation, the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia (part of Roscosmos) told TASS.

NASA plans to flood the ISS at Nemo Point in the Pacific Ocean in 2031

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to continue operating the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030. This is reported by CNN.

The Washington-based company Radian Aerospace has announced the beginning of the development of a reusable spacecraft capable of taking off and landing like a conventional aircraft. The project budget is $27.5 million.

Dembinski expert: in Germany they know that the US power is waning

In Germany, they know that the power of the United States is waning, and China is the main threat to them, said Defence24 senior researcher and project manager of the Institute for Peace Research in Frankfurt Matthias Dembinsky.

a Memorandum of cooperation with the "Glavkosmos" and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. will be valid until the end of 2026

"Glavkosmos" (part of Roscosmos) and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. signed a Memorandum of cooperation, which involves the creation of satellite remote sensing (RS) "Bangabandhu-2" in the interests of the Republic. This is stated in the company's message, distributed on Wednesday.

Roscosmos said that the purpose of the maneuver is to form ballistic conditions before launching the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft into orbit (March 18) and landing Soyuz MS-19 (March 30).

Russian engineers will use an algorithm that will allow archiving information transmitted by spacecraft in orbit, significantly reducing the file size

The new data compression algorithm created by the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) will allow 10 times to increase data transmission from satellites. This was reported on Wednesday in Roscosmos.

Chinese Tianwen-1 took a selfie against the background of the North Pole of Mars

The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1, located in near-Martian orbit, shot a video showing itself against the background of the Red Planet. The corresponding video can be viewed on Twitter.

Tests of the electric refueling model of the Angara-A5M launch vehicle, which was named Angara-NJ, will be conducted at the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2023.

Roscosmos: a full-fledged mock-up of the Angara-A5M heavy rocket will be tested at Vostochny

In 2023, it is planned to test a full-fledged electric refueling ground model of the Angara-A5M heavy rocket at the Russian Vostochny cosmodrome, Roscosmos reports.

NASA assumes that the International Space Station will be de-orbited in 2031. By that time, the Americans and their partners can put into operation the Lunar Lunar Gateway.