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The NEBO 25 suborbital carrier was launched in Russia for the first time. Femtosatellites were placed on its board. During the tests, the engineers collected all the necessary information about the state of the carrier.

A minute and a half before the start, an automation command was formed to cancel the start

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, scheduled earlier on Friday, was postponed due to a malfunction in the ground complex one and a half minutes before launch. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

The State Commission may postpone the launch of the Angara-A5 rocket to December 25

The State Commission is considering the issue of postponing the launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, which had previously failed. The launch from the Plesetsk cosmodrome may be postponed to December 25. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the rocket and space industry.

Hainan and Sichuan account for 45% of all Chinese launches

Hainan, together with the southwestern province of Sichuan, brought the total number of launches of the Changzheng series launch vehicles to 180 times in 2021 (out of a total of 402 launches carried out in China). This was reported by the Chinese Aerospace Research Academy (CAECC).

SpaceNews: In December, SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket for the hundredth time

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after launching in December with the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) made its hundredth landing, SpaceNews reports.

The purpose of the experiment is to check how many tasks can be completed after landing on another planet

One of the space crews who returned to earth is planned to be left at the landing site for several days to practice landing on another planet, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

Now people with fractures and poor eyesight can fly into space

The medical requirements imposed on participants of short-term space flights have greatly decreased in recent years, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

According to Sergey Medvedev, chief designer of radio engineering systems of mutual measurements of the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments, they are also creating a fundamentally new system for the rendezvous and docking of spacecraft.

The long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope orbital infrared Observatory took place. It is considered as a replacement for the Hubble telescope, launched into orbit in 1990.

The Ariane V heavy rocket on Saturday launched the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion into orbit to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, the Arianespace carrier development company said.

The French President stressed that he was filled with a sense of pride

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope into space will forever remain one of the key events in the history of space exploration.

According to Dmitry Loskutov, CEO of Glavkosmos, a total of seven launches are planned for next year

The first launch of British OneWeb communications satellites in 2022 is scheduled to take place in February from the Guiana Space Center (Kourou Cosmodrome). This was reported to TASS by the General Director of Glavkosmos JSC (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

The James Webb telescope successfully corrected the course to the second Lagrange point

The most expensive James Webb telescope ("James Webb"), launched into space the day before, successfully made the first course correction. This was reported by NASA.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that 2021 was a breakthrough year for many projects that could not be launched in recent years

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, congratulated the specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), who jointly developed the James Webb telescope, on the successful launch of the device. The corresponding message was published by Strugovets on Saturday on his Facebook page.

The platform of the nanoclass spacecraft is made in the form of a hexagonal prism and consists of a set of unified scalable modules

JSC "Russian Space Systems" has patented a multi-purpose platform of the nanoclass spacecraft. This is stated in the patent for the invention distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

In particular, the mission of the Progress M-UM spacecraft has ended

The program of dynamic operations that were planned for the Russian segment of the ISS in 2021 has been completed. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.

Five more people will choose for the flight, which will take place in 2022

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron entertainment content platform, won the auction and paid $28 million for the opportunity to make a suborbital flight on the New Shepard ship of the American company Blue Origin. He announced this on Thursday on his Twitter page. Previously, the identity of the winner of the auction held in June 2021 was not disclosed.

Roscosmos: fragments of the Progress M-UM module ship fell into the Pacific Ocean

The instrument and aggregate compartment of the Progress M-UM cargo module has been undocked from the Berth module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and flooded in the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos reports.

China is preparing to set a new national record for the number of launches in 2021

China on Thursday successfully launched two experimental Shiyan-12 satellites into orbit for space exploration. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Kosmos-2519, from which another spacecraft had previously separated, burned up in the atmosphere. The satellite had remote sensing equipment, as well as equipment for shooting objects in space.