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China on Friday, using a Long March-4B (CZ-4B, Changzheng-4B) carrier rocket, successfully launched a group of Shijian-6 05 (Shijian-6 05) satellites. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency.

Progress RCC: the preliminary design of the Soyuz-5 rocket is undergoing examination

The preliminary design of a promising Russian medium-sized Soyuz-5 rocket designed to replace the Ukrainian Zenit carrier has been completed, the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) told TASS.

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad will make her first flight in 2022

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad, Anna Kikina, was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity to carry out the first flight into space under the cross-flight program.

It squeezes the torso during sleep in such a way that it maintains a normal balance of fluids, close to that observed with gravity

American and European space medics have developed a sleeping bag that redistributes fluid inside the body of astronauts and astronauts, which protects them from increased intracranial pressure and eye damage. This was announced on Friday by the press service of the University of Texas.

In particular, the parties will discuss agreements on the implementation of the Baiterek project

The next meeting of the Kazakh-Russian intergovernmental commission on the Baikonur complex will be held in Nur-Sultan on December 13, where agreements on the creation of the Baiterek space rocket complex will be discussed. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin.

Yuri Urlichich, Deputy General Director for the Development of the orbital grouping and Promising Projects, also called on specialists to participate in the creation of laws in this area

Roscosmos invites the international community to come to a common understanding of these ecomonitoring systems. This was stated on Friday at the International Energy Forum in Moscow by Yuri Urlich, First Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and Promising projects.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, stated the need to protect against space threats

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, said it was necessary to create technologies to protect the planet from space threats. This is reported by Interfax.

The Progress Rocket and Space Center is already manufacturing the first new-generation Resurs-PM satellites, TASS reported on Saturday, December 11. "The production of Resurs-PM spacecraft is carried out in the production units of Progress RCC JSC in accordance with the schedule," the Progress RCC stressed.

The Russian startup We Can Fly intends to take part in a competition organized by American entrepreneur Elon Musk, with a developed technology for cleaning the Earth's atmosphere from carbon dioxide (CO2). This was reported on December 11 by TASS with reference to the company's press service.

MIC: a small-sized spacecraft separated from the US Air Force X-37B spacecraft

In October, a small spacecraft (spacecraft) separated at high speed from the reusable spacecraft X-37B of the US Air Force (Air Force), which Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin associated with a possible "weapon of mass destruction", writes the Military-Industrial Courier (MIC).

Bezos and Branson will be presented with a badge, which is given to participants of space missions in the United States

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recognized Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson from Virgin Galactic and actor from the TV series "Star Trek" William Shatner as astronauts, they will be awarded the appropriate badge. This is reported on the agency's website.

There were six tourists on board

The New Shepard spacecraft of Blue Origin with six tourists on board made a surorbital flight on Saturday. The journey, broadcast on the company's website, lasted a total of more than ten minutes, after which the capsule with passengers descended to Earth.

The Progress Rocket and Space Center planned to do this in the second-third quarter of this year

The locator for the Obzor-R radar spacecraft being created in Russia will be delivered in early 2022. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, 30,568 employees have recovered, 1,596 people are currently being treated

More than 235 employees of the rocket and space industry died due to coronavirus during the entire pandemic period. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Sunday.

NASA has launched a new monitoring of asteroid collisions with Earth. Now the system more accurately calculates the probability of a dangerous approach. The result of complex calculations can be seen on a separate website, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Asteroids and stars are visible on the resource with 3D visualization. The data is constantly updated, the real picture is displayed. The previous NASA system worked for almost 20 years. In less than an hour, it was possible to get the probability of a collision with our planet over the next 100 years.

Russia needs to launch about 20 microsatellites into space every year, said Ivan Uteshev, head of the Astronomy Department of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence

About 20 launches of microsatellites need to be carried out annually, and the program for launching such devices requires support on a long-term basis. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of Moscow, coach of the Russian national team in Astronomy and Astrophysics Ivan Uteshev at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with participants of the Congress of Young Scientists on Tuesday.

The launch was postponed to December 11

TASS, December 8. The American company Blue Origin postponed the launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with space tourists from December 9 to December 11 due to adverse weather conditions. The company announced this on its Twitter page on Wednesday.

The cost of registration of services for visiting the Vostochny cosmodrome is less than 10 thousand rubles for adult citizens of the Russian Federation, for a child - less than 5 thousand, Roscosmos reported.

The installation of such engines will reduce the lifetime of space debris

Tests of a plasma engine manufactured by a private company that will be able to hold the position of small spacecraft in orbit have begun in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

The launch of the Electron rocket on May 15 ended in failure, as specialists were unable to put the satellites into orbit

The Electron rocket of the American company Rocket Lab with two Earth remote sensing satellites launched on Thursday from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, the company said in a statement.