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Cosmonaut Kornienko called the Moon a transshipment base for the exploration of Mars and the Solar System

Cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko said that the Moon can become a transit point for further exploration of Mars and the Solar System, reports URA.RU .

The American company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Turkish communications satellite

The American company SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver the Turkish communications satellite Turksat 5A into orbit. This was reported on the company's Twitter account.

China has conducted two more successful tests of the Tianxing launch vehicle, which in the future will become a prototype for reusable transport spacecraft, the company developing the Space Transportation spacecraft said on Friday.

The Roscosmos State Corporation has concluded contracts with the Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company for the creation of the Skif and Marathon satellite groupings. This was announced by the CEO of ISS JSC Nikolay Testoyedov at the Russian Scientific and Technical Congress "Directions of the national scientific and technological breakthrough 2030".

The capacity of the site in the Skolkovo Technopark is about 30 sets of spacecraft per year

The first site of serial assembly of satellite platforms of small spacecraft in the Russian Federation was launched by Sputnix in the Skolkovo Technopark. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group (part of AFK Sistema), which includes the company.

As specified, such measures are necessary for the development of space tourism

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin at a meeting of the industry operational headquarters instructed the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia to develop a plan to increase the production of Soyuz MS manned spacecraft. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of Roscosmos.

A suborbital flight to an altitude of more than 100 km is planned by the company for 2022

The private space company Success Rockets plans to launch an orbital rocket in 2024. This was stated by the company's CEO Oleg Mansurov at a meeting in the Federation Council dedicated to improving legislation in the field of space activities in order to create a space services market.

More than 10 companies have expressed a desire to join such an association, said the head of Success Rockets Oleg Mansurov

The Association of Private Space Companies, if established in Russia, could collect information about problems and tools for the development of commercial cosmonautics. Oleg Mansurov, the head of the Russian private space company Success Rockets, made such an idea at a meeting on improving legislation in the field of space activities, which was held in the Federation Council.

In addition, according to Sergey Krikalev, Executive Director of Roscosmos for manned Space Programs, the Russian Federation has too strict rules for choosing a performer and there are laws that define competitive procedures.

Japan will spend a record $262.8 billion on defense in five years. Compared to the previous planning period, Tokyo will increase spending on the army by 10%. Additional funding will be used for the purchase of weapons, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

The search and identification of the nature of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has been officially declared one of the important tasks of the Pentagon.

The US Congress has established a special service in the system of the Ministry of Defense — the Department for Tracking Anomalies and Finding out their Nature (ASRO, Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office). 

Parachutes for the Russian-European ExoMars mission have been successfully tested in the United States. It is planned to launch it next year.

The enterprises of the integrated structure of the rocket engine building of Roscosmos are preparing engineering notes on options for building the second-stage engine of the carrier

The final deadlines for the completion of the preliminary design of the Amur methane launch vehicle with the return stage will be set after evaluating the options for the second stage engine. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) (part of Roscosmos).

For the first time in history, the American Parker probe "touched" the Sun. It flew through the upper layer of the Sun's atmosphere - the corona. This was announced on Tuesday, December 14, according to the NASA website.

The CEO of the corporation noted that "the relevance of the development is increasing in the field of financial technologies every day, especially taking into account the trends in the development of digital worlds or metaverses."

With proper technical support, the ISS is able to work until 2030, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

In the near future, Roscosmos is waiting for a government decision on the issue of extending the work of the ISS, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The International Space Station (ISS), with proper technical support, is capable of operating until 2030. This was announced on Wednesday, December 15, by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Six launches from Russian cosmodromes and one from the spaceport in French Guiana are planned to be carried out by Soyuz rockets under the OneWeb program in 2022, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Interfax.

It was supposed to take place on December 22, the next date is December 24

NASA postponed the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope scheduled for December 22 by at least two days due to technical reasons. As noted in the press release, "specialists are engaged in eliminating the problem on the transmission and reception line of information between the telescope and the launch vehicle."