Latest news on "Space"

The first flight of the Belarusian cosmonaut will take place in 2023-2024, a girl may become one, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

"I asked the Belarusian side to pick up the girls," Rogozin told reporters.

According to him, Roscosmos expects that the flight will take place in 2023-2024.

The head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin appreciated the military satellites of Russia. The orbiters of the Russian Armed Forces are distinguished by high characteristics. This is reported by TASS.

The CEO of Roscosmos stressed that, in general, the corporation fulfills the state defense order

The Russian military satellite group provides the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with everything necessary. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Friday at the EAEU business forum "Space Integration".

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted to perform an evasion maneuver from the wreckage of the American Pegasus rocket. This was announced on December 3 at the EAEU forum "Space Integration" by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The contract amount is about 2.58 billion rubles

Roscosmos has signed a contract with JSC "Russian Space Systems" to conduct research in the field of information security and noise immunity of the information and telecommunications infrastructure of the GLONASS system, according to the public procurement portal.

NASA will not have time to complete all the necessary research to organize long-term missions to the Moon and Mars on the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030, when the operation of the station will be completed. This became known on Thursday, December 2.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, launched on Friday Moscow time with 48 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, the developer company SpaceX reported.

Two BlackSky spacecraft were launched into orbit, followed by Starlink satellites

SpaceX on Thursday successfully delivered 48 mini-satellites to orbit for its Starlink network, as well as two microsatellites from BlackSky. The broadcast was conducted on the SpaceX website.

The developers assure that it will be an analogue of the NASA stand

Russian engineers will develop the country's first stand for testing satellites weighing up to five tons, the work is planned to be completed in the first half of 2022. This was reported to journalists by the president of Cheltek Holding, which includes Ural Engineering Center LLC (industrial partner), Valery Bodrov.

According to the executive director of Roscosmos Alexander Bloshenko, while it is possible to deliver a smaller mass there

The Zeus nuclear tug, which is currently being developed in Russia, will be able to deliver tens of tons of payload to the satellites of Jupiter. This was announced by the Executive Director of Roscosmos for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

The Taikunauts will introduce viewers to the work of the space station in the video broadcast mode

China will launch the broadcast of educational videos from the Tiangong space station (translated from Chinese as "Heavenly Palace"). This was reported on Thursday by the Xinhua news Agency with reference to the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The launch and landing site of the Amur-LNG reusable rocket being created in Russia has been determined at the Vostochny cosmodrome, Alexander Bloshenko, Executive Director of Roscosmos for Advanced Programs and Science, said at the All-Russian Cosmonautics and Aviation Forum CosmoStart 2021. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

At the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, the Russian Ministry of Defense proposed to protect artificial Earth satellites from space debris with the help of Velcro shells. The corresponding patent of the Russian military is reported by TASS.

Nanodragon was among nine satellites launched into orbit aboard the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The Vietnamese satellite NanoDragon, launched on November 9 from the Uchinoura cosmodrome in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has not sent a signal from orbit over the past three weeks. This was stated by the Deputy Director General of the Vietnamese National Space Center (NCC) Le Xuan Hui, the newspaper "Zan chi" reported on Thursday.

In 1971, on December 2, the descent module of the Soviet Mars-3 station made a soft landing on the surface of Mars for the first time in history.

Ukraine intends to take part in an international project to return a man to the moon. This was stated by the head of the country's State Space Agency, Vladimir Taftai, in an interview with the Ukrinform agency, RIA Novosti reports.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, work has been completed on placing cargo intended for delivery to the International Space Station in the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft.

In the worst case, the "leaking" intermediate chamber of the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) will have to be blocked, which will lead to the loss of access to the docking port for the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft, SpaceNews reports a comment by NASA Assistant Administrator for Space Operations Kathy Luders, included in the report of the NASA Inspector General's Office.

The Ukrainian satellite of remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" has been tested. Specialists of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (KB) have prepared the device for shipment to Cape Canaveral in the USA, where the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle will take place. This is reported by the information and consulting agency Defense Express.

For the first time, the US Navy and the American company Raytheon have dropped a Stormbreaker planning bomb from an F-35B fighter jet that is insensitive to weather conditions. The flight of the bomb was tracked by another fighter - F/A-18F - over a shared network.