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Landing is expected at 06:18 Moscow time in the steppe of Kazakhstan

The crew of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, consisting of cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who will become the first special correspondent of TASS in orbit, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano, will return to Earth on the morning of December 20. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Roscosmos on Wednesday.

At the same time, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation expressed hope that Washington would see "contradictions in its own position" on preventing an arms race in space against the background of Western accusations against Russia

Russia hopes that cooperation between Moscow and Washington in the space industry will continue on a mutually beneficial basis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Wednesday.

The anti-covid measures taken will protect Russian cosmonauts from the new strain of the Omicron coronavirus, the Cosmonaut Training Center told Interfax on Wednesday.

A fragment of the American Pegasus rocket will fly 5.4 km from the International Space Station (ISS) on December 3. This was announced on Wednesday, December 1, according to Roscosmos.

The European Space Agency reported that the tests confirmed the possibility of Mars Express in the mode of "blind collection" of radio waves

TASS, December 1. Chinese and European scientists have successfully conducted trial communication sessions between the Zhuzhong rover and the Mars Express probe, confirming the possibility of using the European mission to maintain contact with the Chinese rover. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the European Space Agency (ESA).

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.

The universal Orlyonok spacecraft, which will replace Progress in the cargo version and Soyuz in the manned version, may appear in 2026-2027, RIA Novosti reports a statement by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos plans to grow improved varieties of food plants in orbit. This was announced on November 29 by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The contract amount was 5.37 billion rubles

VNIIEM named after A. G. Iosifyan will manufacture the Meteor-M satellites No. 2-5 and Meteor-M No. 2-6. The corresponding contract with Roscosmos was signed on November 25, according to the state procurement website.

An agreement between the US Space Agency and the state corporation Roscosmos on "cross-over" flights may be signed in the near future, Deputy program manager of the International Space Station (ISS) NASA Dana Weigl said on Monday.

The possibility of docking the American Crew Dragon spacecraft with the Russian Berth module has not yet been discussed with Roscosmos, the docking interfaces are currently incompatible, said Dan Weigl, deputy head of the ISS program at NASA.

Based on its results, a technical specification for the corresponding development work will be compiled

The research work on the creation of a parachute system for the return stages of space rockets is planned to be opened in 2022. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Technodinamika holding of Rostec State Corporation.

The development of a parachute for a reusable launch vehicle will begin next year. This was announced by Technodinamika Holding.

Declaring cyberspace and outer space "operational environments" of NATO undermines efforts to prevent the use of these areas for military purposes, according to a statement published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.

The founder of the SpaceX space company, Elon Musk, believes that difficulties with the production of Raptor rocket engines can lead to its bankruptcy. This was announced by Musk in a letter to the company's employees on November 26, CNBC writes.

The weapon tested by China in July is a partial-orbital bombing system. The statement of the Deputy Chief of the Space Forces for Operations, Lieutenant General Chance Saltzman, is transmitted by Breaking Defense.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft will deliver supplies and fuel to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 21, NASA announced on Sunday.

The launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the cosmodrome is scheduled for December 2

The American company SpaceX plans to launch 53 more mini-satellites into orbit for its Starlink network on December 2. This was reported on Sunday by a specialized portal Spaceflightnow.com .

New aircraft with hypersonic weapons will be delivered to the troops of the Aerospace Forces in 2022. This was announced on Monday, November 29, by the Commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

In 2022, promising VVST models, including those with hypersonic weapons, will be put on combat duty. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the Deputy Commander-in-chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.