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Scientists believe that it was formed from 1.7 to 2 billion years ago

TASS, November 23. Thanks to seismic data collected by the InSight Martian lander, scientists have discovered traces of an ancient crater under a layer of frozen lava. The description of the work was published by the scientific journal Nature Communications.

2600 children from 63 countries of the world took part in the international drawing contest

Eight-year-old Yarina Zakalyuzhnaya from the city of Zhytomyr won the drawing contest of the European Space Agency, now a copy of her work will be applied to the body of the Ariane 5 rocket, which will go into space in 2023. This was reported on Tuesday by the Ukrainian publication "Public".

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier that the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 telecommunications satellites was postponed to December 12

Specialists of the M. V. Khrunichev Center eliminated the remark identified earlier on the Briz-M upper stage, which will be used to launch the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft into target orbits. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.

China has successfully put an Earth sensing satellite into orbit. The Gaofen-3 device is designed to monitor the sea and land, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The radar scans the Earth's surface in 12 modes. From orbit, images with a resolution of 1 m can be obtained. With this technology, the clarity of the shooting is not affected by weather conditions and illumination. The satellite became the second device from the Gaofen-3 series, the first was launched in 2016.

Deputy head of NASA Thomas Zurbuchen said that none of the asteroids known to specialists in the next 100 years threatens to collide with the Earth.

The maximum load for it is 8.25 tons

Roscosmos may set a record for the mass output to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Soyuz-2 rocket during the launch of the Berth node module. This was reported to TASS by cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov.

The launch of the James Webb space telescope is postponed from December 18 to December 22 due to an incident in the vertical assembly workshop during the preparation of the device for launch, NASA reported.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, predicted the timing of the emergence of the Internet from space in Russia. He noted that the Sphere program will allow receiving it in 2024, TASS reports.

Spacecraft will also be used to monitor possible natural disasters, the newspaper notes

The Japanese government plans to launch three small satellites in the middle of this decade that will be able to track the enemy's hypersonic gliding warheads. This was reported by the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday, citing sources.

The Russian Federation has handed over to Lebanon satellite images taken on the day of the explosion in the port of Beirut. This was stated on November 22 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bu Habib.

The S-550 mobile missile defense system being developed in Russia will be able to shoot down American X-37 orbital UAVs capable of carrying nuclear charges, RIA Novosti reports, citing sources in the defense industry.

The ESA member countries have signed a manifesto calling for the development of the European manned program and the acceleration of sending a probe to the Saturn system.

The Kursk nuclear submarine was lost in 2000 as a result of a collision with a NATO submarine, its name is known "with a 90% probability," Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, who commanded the Northern Fleet at that time, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Roscosmos received more than 12 billion rubles from the reserve fund for the lunar program and the creation of new satellites

Roscosmos received the first funds for the creation of the Sphere satellite system, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said.

L The volunteers will then have to go through four exams

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Friday in a message on its website that from December 20 it will begin a new set of astronauts who, in particular, will be able to take part in lunar exploration programs. Applications will be accepted until March 4, volunteers will then have to go through four exams, the winners of the competition will be announced approximately in March 2023, after which they will begin training.

Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov held a meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region and, following its results, demanded that Roscosmos and other responsible structures monitor compliance with legislation during the construction of facilities on a daily basis.

Americans will probably ride on the moon on the goddess of hunting. Artemis can be called a new rover for an Earth satellite, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The concept of an electric car was presented by Northrop Grumman. However, the project has not been worked out in detail yet. A number of automotive companies are planning to involve in the development. According to the plan, the rover will be delivered to the Moon separately. Now three cars left over from visits to the Apollo missions are already "parked" on the Earth satellite. Americans plan to return to the moon in 2025.

The number of candidates for cosmonauts of the European Space Agency (ESA) included seven citizens of Estonia, said on Saturday the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Andres Sutt (Andres Sutt).

The ceremony of the start of the construction of the cosmodrome for the promising Ukrainian carrier "Cyclone-4M" took place in Halifax, Canada. Earlier it became known that they want to hold its first launch in 2022.

The device will stay in orbit for a little less than a month, and on December 15 it will head to Earth

The American Cygnus cargo ship of Northrop Grumman Corporation undocked on Saturday from the International Space Station (ISS) after three months in orbit. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).