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The new Russian orbital service station (ROSS) should be in a high-latitude orbit with an inclination of 97-98 degrees, Roscosmos said.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the enterprises of the rocket and space industry have worked well in 2021, despite the pressure of the pandemic

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, is convinced that the new launch complex at the Vostochny cosmodrome, which is designed for launching the Angara launch vehicle, will be introduced on time.

A fire test of the RD-0146D1 oxygen-hydrogen engine was conducted on the territory of the Voronezh Rocket Engine Building Center. It is being created for the KVTK upper stage, which will be used on the Angara-A5 heavy class rocket.

It is noted that the fragments did not harm the environment

TASS, December 30. The parts of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle found on the territory of the Komi Republic, which was launched on December 27 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, did not harm the environment and will be evacuated until February 2022. This was reported on Thursday on the website of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the region.

The program will include a plan to create an inclusive International Scientific Lunar Station by 2035

China and Russia are going to sign a new space cooperation program for 2023-2027 next year. This was reported to the Chinese newspaper Global Times in Roscosmos, the publication reports on Wednesday.

Voronezh Chemical Automation Design Bureau conducted tests of a forced oxygen-hydrogen engine for the Angara-A5 heavy rocket, Roskomos reported.

It is used for the study of land resources

China on Wednesday successfully launched the Tianhui-4 scientific and experimental satellite into orbit, which will be used to study land resources. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

In particular, the company launched the Arctic-M meteorological satellite and the British OneWeb communications satellites

Russian rockets put 340 satellites into orbit in the outgoing year, according to the final video of Roscosmos posted on Wednesday on the YouTube channel of the state corporation's TV studio.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a new means of transportation for the exploration of the Moon, and in the future, large asteroids. One day humanity will land on them, for the purpose of extracting useful resources or studying, and then the question of moving on the surface of such cosmic bodies will arise. American engineers propose to use the gift of space itself – the abundance of static electricity there.

NASASpaceFlight.com: the Russian upper stage "Perseus" did not turn on the engine

The third launch of the Russian heavy Angara-A5 rocket with a Perseus upper stage and a 2.4-ton payload mock-up did not pass completely normally, the American portal reports NASASpaceFlight.com .

In 2021, on average, one Falcon 9 first stage was used 3.1 times

In 2021, the first 10 stages of SpaceX's Falcon 9 heavy rocket were launched 31 times, the portal writes NASASpaceFlight.com .

Deputy Chairman of the Space Transport Committee of the International Federation of Astronautics Yang Yuguang said that the normal operating altitude of Starlink exceeds 500 km and does not coincide with the position of the Chinese space station.

The Perseus upper stage did not put the overall mass model of the satellite into geostationary orbit, it follows from the data Space-track.org . The press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not respond to the request of N + 1 about the situation with Perseus.

Glavkosmos: 11 launches of foreign spacecraft are planned in 2022

In 2022, Roscosmos has planned to conduct 11 spacecraft launches in the interests of foreign customers, Dmitry Loskutov, CEO of Glavkosmos, told TASS.

Reuters: China announced the threat of Starlink

In early December, China presented a document to the UN in which it spoke about the threat of the global satellite system of high-speed broadband Internet access Starlink, Reuters reports.

It is planned to use it during the flights of the promising ship "Eagle"

A universal system for docking spacecraft in near-Earth and near-moon orbits is being developed by the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments (SRI TP), the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS) reported.

Roscosmos congratulated Oleg Kononenko, Oleg Artemyev and Alexey Ovchinin on the presentation of state awards and wished them "new space achievements for the good of Russia"

Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who survived the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle accident in 2018, was awarded the Order of Courage in the Kremlin. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

Beijing is developing a rocket that will be able to put 150 tons of cargo into a low reference orbit. Earlier it became known that the first launch of the Chinese "lunar" carrier should take place in 2026.

It significantly increases the potential capabilities of the rocket in comparison with earlier Angara models. As in the last three test launches of missiles of this family, the payload was represented by a mock-up.

The ministry said that Washington missile launches pose a threat to the lives of Chinese astronauts

China expresses dissatisfaction with the actions of the United States in near-Earth space and demands that the United States be held responsible for the activities of American companies that threaten the lives of Chinese astronauts with their rocket launches. This was stated on Tuesday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.