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According to the Kyodo agency, the relevant measures of the government of the country are associated with increased activity of Russia and China in the field of space

The Japanese authorities intend to create a second space task force of the Air Self-Defense Forces in the country in fiscal year 2022 (starting April 1, 2022). This was reported on Sunday by the Kyodo news agency.

It will be possible to get into space without resorting to rockets. Yesterday, November 11, the portal thedrive.com He reported that the American company SpinLaunch has successfully tested a centrifuge that will be able to send small satellites into orbit.

The private company PLD Space has introduced a reusable suborbital rocket Miura 1. It was the first carrier developed in Spain.

Glen DeVries, vice president of the French company Dassault Systemes, was killed in the crash of a small Cessna-172 aircraft in New Jersey, USA. This was announced on Friday, November 12, by Blue Origin, which sent the New Shepard rocket on a suborbital flight in October, including with DeVries on board.

NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron will go into outer space from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, November 30 to replace a non-working antenna on one of the truss structures of the station, according to the NASA website.

Over-the-horizon radio communication makes it possible to significantly increase the effective controlled range of an unmanned aerial vehicle, said Sergey Bogatikov, CEO of Kronstadt JSC.

Experts discovered a malfunction during tests of the Doppler speed and range meter (DISD-LR), designed to ensure a soft landing of the Luna-25 spacecraft. This was reported to TASS on November 13 in the press service of Roscosmos.

Since May 2019, the company has put more than 1.8 thousand satellites into orbit

The American company SpaceX on Saturday successfully delivered 53 more mini-satellites to orbit for its Starlink network.

The Proton-M rocket will launch two Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 communication satellites into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 6, Roscosmos reported.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Saturday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 53 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

Maxim Litvak, head of the laboratory of the ICI RAS, said that the launch of the Luna-25 interplanetary station in 2022 will help Russia to get ahead in the "lunar race", RIA Novosti reports.

Now the GLONASS orbital grouping includes 25 spacecraft

The Russian navigation satellite of the new generation Glonass-K No. 701 has been withdrawn from the orbital grouping. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the GLONASS Consumer application Center.

Vladimir Solovyov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut and flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, has been appointed the new general designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia. This was reported on Friday, November 12, by the RIA Novosti news agency.

The Crew Dragon-3 manned spacecraft docked with the ISS. There were four astronauts on board the SpaceX spacecraft. The docking was carried out in automatic mode. The process was completed 21 hours after the launch of the ship, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The crew includes three NASA astronauts and a German astronaut from the European Space Agency. Specialists will work at the station for six months - until April 2022.

The US Army has begun flight tests of the armament complex of a promising high-speed reconnaissance helicopter - the XM915 20-millimeter air cannon and a prototype MEL launcher for multipurpose ammunition and missiles. According to FlightGlobal, they are being tested on a modified UH-60 Black Hawk multipurpose helicopter.

The American company SpinLaunch has successfully used a centrifuge to launch a prototype stage of a suborbital rocket into the upper atmosphere. The corresponding video with the tests is shown on YouTube.

The correction of the orbit was necessary for the formation of ballistic conditions before the launch and landing of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft

The correction of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), previously scheduled for November 16, has been canceled. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Roscosmos on Thursday.

As noted in the Cosmonaut Training Center, during the training for the first time it was possible to work out a mechanism for solving a common task by astronauts who are at different facilities and when one part of the crew is under water.

As the state corporation clarified, it is also planned to use these funds to finance work within the framework of the Russian-European ExoMars mission, research of objects by the Spektr-RG observatory

The additional funds allocated by the government will be used for research of the Moon, astrophysical objects in the ultraviolet and visible ranges and Venus. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Roscosmos on Thursday.

According to a RIA Novosti source, the Russian government has allocated an additional 6.5 billion rubles for the most important space projects. Previously, part of the funding was "cut off".