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A minute and a half before the start, an automation command was formed to cancel the start

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, scheduled earlier on Friday, was postponed due to a malfunction in the ground complex one and a half minutes before launch. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

The State Commission may postpone the launch of the Angara-A5 rocket to December 25

The State Commission is considering the issue of postponing the launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, which had previously failed. The launch from the Plesetsk cosmodrome may be postponed to December 25. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the rocket and space industry.

The long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope orbital infrared Observatory took place. It is considered as a replacement for the Hubble telescope, launched into orbit in 1990.

Hainan and Sichuan account for 45% of all Chinese launches

Hainan, together with the southwestern province of Sichuan, brought the total number of launches of the Changzheng series launch vehicles to 180 times in 2021 (out of a total of 402 launches carried out in China). This was reported by the Chinese Aerospace Research Academy (CAECC).

SpaceNews: In December, SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket for the hundredth time

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after launching in December with the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) made its hundredth landing, SpaceNews reports.

The purpose of the experiment is to check how many tasks can be completed after landing on another planet

One of the space crews who returned to earth is planned to be left at the landing site for several days to practice landing on another planet, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

Now people with fractures and poor eyesight can fly into space

The medical requirements imposed on participants of short-term space flights have greatly decreased in recent years, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

According to Sergey Medvedev, chief designer of radio engineering systems of mutual measurements of the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments, they are also creating a fundamentally new system for the rendezvous and docking of spacecraft.

China is preparing to set a new national record for the number of launches in 2021

China on Thursday successfully launched two experimental Shiyan-12 satellites into orbit for space exploration. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Kosmos-2519, from which another spacecraft had previously separated, burned up in the atmosphere. The satellite had remote sensing equipment, as well as equipment for shooting objects in space.

The platform of the nanoclass spacecraft is made in the form of a hexagonal prism and consists of a set of unified scalable modules

JSC "Russian Space Systems" has patented a multi-purpose platform of the nanoclass spacecraft. This is stated in the patent for the invention distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

Roscosmos: fragments of the Progress M-UM module ship fell into the Pacific Ocean

The instrument and aggregate compartment of the Progress M-UM cargo module has been undocked from the Berth module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and flooded in the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos reports.

Five more people will choose for the flight, which will take place in 2022

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron entertainment content platform, won the auction and paid $28 million for the opportunity to make a suborbital flight on the New Shepard ship of the American company Blue Origin. He announced this on Thursday on his Twitter page. Previously, the identity of the winner of the auction held in June 2021 was not disclosed.

In particular, the mission of the Progress M-UM spacecraft has ended

The program of dynamic operations that were planned for the Russian segment of the ISS in 2021 has been completed. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.

American companies L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman have defended the projects of hypersonic weapons detection satellites. Now they can move on to prototype production.

Assistant to Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Yozo Hirano noted that if he had been given such a chance, he would have taken it

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, who visited the ISS, admitted that they would like to go into outer space. They reported this during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

He said that his colleagues on the crew helped him in his work - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

Managing the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft alone turned out to be easier than it seemed before the flight, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin said during a conference in TASS, which was held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC).

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin called this distance the hardest in terms of energy consumption

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin considered the flight for 12 days difficult in terms of energy consumption, comparing it with a race at a distance of 800-1000 meters. He expressed this opinion during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

Bill Nelson noted that NASA astronauts and Roscosmos cosmonauts have been working together for more than 20 years

The head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, hopes to continue cooperation with Russia within the framework of the International Space Station (ISS). He stated this to The Washington Post.

NASA hoped for continued effective cooperation with Russia on the ISS

The American company SpaceX has destroyed the monopoly of Roscosmos on the delivery of people to the International Space Station (ISS), however, the head of NASA Bill Nelson hopes to continue effective cooperation on the relevant project with Russia, writes The Washington Post.