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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.

Xi Jinping spoke about his readiness to promote cooperation with Russia in space exploration

China is ready to promote cooperation with Russia in the field of cosmonautics, reports TASS, referring to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project

N. A. Semikhatov NPO of Automation plans in 2022 to test models of the control system, which is designed for the promising Soyuz-5 rocket. This was announced by the general director of the company Andrey Misyura.

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.