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Nanosatellites developed by Sputnix will be launched during 2022

HSE students will be involved in the project of creating a group of nanosatellites for monitoring navigation, including in the Arctic along the Northern Sea Route. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

Two cargo ships - Progress MS-19 and Progress MS-21 - will fly to the ISS on a two-day schedule, said Rafail Murtazin, head of the Ballistics Department of RSC Energia

Both flights of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft to the ISS in 2022 will take place according to a two-turn approach scheme (about three hours). This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos), Rafail Murtazin.

The Soyuz-ST-B rocket with OneWeb satellites was installed on the launch pad of the Kourou cosmodrome

A Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket was installed at the launch complex of the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket will launch British OneWeb communications satellites into orbit. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Glavkosmos company (part of the Roscosmos state Corporation).

QSpace Technologies LLC, a developer of satellite and atmospheric systems in the field of quantum cryptography, announced the closure of the seed round in the amount of 71.7 million rubles. The investor was Gazprombank— one of the largest commercial investors in quantum technologies in Russia.

"Teledroid" will be able to work in the aggressive environment of outer space and perform experimental testing of typical operations in both copying and automatic mode

The anthropomorphic robot of the new generation "Teledroid" was demonstrated on Monday at the state corporation Roscosmos. It will be able to replace astronauts during work in outer space and is able to function in automatic and copying human actions modes, according to the state corporation's website.

In a single-turn scheme, it will take about two hours, said the head of the ballistics department of the corporation Rafail Murtazin

Specialists of the rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos) have patented a method of single-turn flight to the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the corporation Rafail Murtazin.

The Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with British OneWeb communications satellites is installed at the launch complex of the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) reported.

NASA has been preparing to save on the ISS since 2028

NASA is preparing to save money on the International Space Station (ISS), follows from the report of the American Space Agency, which drew the attention of SpaceNews.

Ars Technica considered that the American Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket in the world

Russian Soyuz rockets are the "kings of all rockets" in terms of the total number of launches, but they are inferior in reliability to the American Falcon 9, according to Eric Berger, a columnist for the American publication Ars Technica.

The spacecraft launched on February 5 in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was launched into the target orbit and taken over by the ground facilities of the Main Test Space Center named after G.S. Titov of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces.

The new American satellite of the missile attack Warning System (SPRN) SBIRS GEO 5 has begun to perform operational tasks after the completion of the testing period in orbit, the US Space Operations Command announced on Sunday.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Thursday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 49 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The head of the ballistics Department of the Rocket and Space Corporation, Rafail Murtazin, said that experts will prepare the conditions for conducting a four-turn approach scheme of Progress MS-20 and will work out elements of a single-turn scheme against its background.

Scientists have found out that SpaceX's Starlink satellites spoil 18% of the images taken by astronomers

Scientists said that SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which have filled a low Earth orbit, interfere with the study of dangerous objects such as asteroids and comets. The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The Ministry of Defense clarified that a stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft

The spacecraft, launched in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Saturday, was taken over by ground-based VKS facilities. This was reported to journalists in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In the interests of the Russian military department, the spacecraft was launched into the calculated orbit by the Fregat upper stage, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Launched on Saturday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome by the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1a" the spacecraft is included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System (SCCP) VKS of the Russian Federation, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters.

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be lowered at the request of NASA, the Russian state corporation Roscosmos announced on Saturday.

Now the flight will be carried out in an orbit of 416 km, said the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Rafail Murtazin

The American colleagues asked to reduce the ISS orbit by several kilometers on a permanent basis. This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos), Rafail Murtazin.

The state standard developed by the Academician M. F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) has been approved in Russia.