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SpaceX has broken the annual record of launches
The American company SpaceX has broken the annual record of launches of its own Falcon 9 heavy rocket, SpaceNews reports.
Rogozin called the timing of the launch of the Russian nuclear "Zeus"
Roscosmos plans to launch the Zeus nuclear tug into space by 2030. The timing of the launch of a promising product during the 72nd International Astronautical Congress, held in Dubai, was announced by the CEO of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin. The statement of the head of Roscosmos leads "Russian Space".
In the USA, they saw the benefits in the Russian "Berth"
The Berth node module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) can be equipped with an international docking adapter International Docking Adapter (IDA) and used for docking American spacecraft Crew Dragon and Starliner, writes Teslarati.
Turkey intends to sell at least 20 more Bayraktars to Ukraine - Bloomberg
Turkey is preparing to supply at least 20 more Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing sources in Turkish government and military-industrial circles.
France and UAE to develop spacecraft for joint lunar missions
France and the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement on the development of spacecraft for missions on the moon, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC), responsible for the UAE lunar program, said.
The US said that the rivalry in space is growing rapidly
The commander of the US Space Forces, General John Raymond, singled out China and Russia as the country's main rivals in space
Rivalry in the space sphere is growing rapidly, the commander of the US Space Forces, General John Raymond, said on Saturday, speaking at a forum organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
A rocket is being prepared at Baikonur to launch a ship with a TASS correspondent cosmonaut
Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will go to the ISS on Soyuz MS-20
The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft is installed on the launch pad No. 31 ("Vostok") of the Baikonur cosmodrome, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.
The Soyuz rocket launched two European Galileo satellites into orbit
The Russian Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle, launched on Sunday from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, successfully put two satellites of the European global navigation system Galileo into orbit, the launch operator Arianespace said.
Galileo satellites put into orbit after launch from the Kourou Cosmodrome
Two new European Galileo FOC M9 satellites have successfully separated from the Russian Fregat upper stage. This was announced on Sunday, December 5, on its website by the state corporation Roscosmos.
Rogozin showed a "two-sided" version of the Soyuz rocket
On December 5, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed a "two-way" Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket in his Telegram channel.
China is developing space potential twice as intensively as the United States, threatens to get ahead by 2030 - US Space Forces
China is advancing in the development of space technologies twice as vigorously as the United States, threatening to outpace them by the end of the 2020s, Deputy Head of Space Operations in the US Space Forces General David Thompson said at the Ronald Reagan National Defense Forum.
Ukraine is going to participate in the program to deliver a man to the moon
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.
NASA told about the worst-case scenario for a "leaky" Russian "Star"
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 was prepared for shipment to the USA
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.
New Year's gifts will be sent to the ISS
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.
How Mars was explored
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.
The Zeus nuclear tug will be able to deliver tens of tons of payload to the Jupiter satellites
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.
China to launch educational broadcast from Tiangong Space Station
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 place of take-off and landing of the Russian reusable rocket has been determined
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.
The Vietnamese satellite has not sent a signal from orbit in three weeks since launch
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.
