At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, intensive preparations have begun at the Vostok launch complex at site No. 31 for the launch of the next batch of spacecraft from the OneWeb satellite company as part of mission No. 38, the Roscosmos press service reports.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage and 36 OneWeb spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for March 5, 2022 at 01:41:02 Moscow time. On February 10, 2022, the Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle was launched from the launch complex of the Guiana Space Center. After 3.5 hours, the Fregat-M upper stage successfully launched another batch of 34 OneWeb satellites into low-Earth orbit. In total, in 2021, Russian launch vehicles delivered 284 OneWeb satellites into low-Earth orbit.
On April 6, 2022, the Soyuz-ST-B rocket will launch two European Galileo navigation satellites into orbit from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. This will be the second launch of Galileo spacecraft, “transplanted” from the Ariane 6 rocket to the Soyuz.
The Roscosmos State Corporation and the Commission on the Chinese Satellite Navigation System signed the Russian-Chinese Cooperation Roadmap in the field of satellite navigation for 2021–2025. The document was signed by the General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the Commission, Mr. He Yubin. The road map includes plans for the integrated and innovative development of the GLONASS and Beidou systems, increasing their compatibility and complementarity, and the mutual placement of ground-based measuring stations in the territories of China and Russia.
In South America, four new TV channels have joined the service for distributing TV programs in Brazil through the Russian communications and broadcasting satellite Express-AM8. In the highly competitive segment of TV channel distribution services, there is no place for emotions; everything is determined by the quality of the service and the reach of the target audience. The successful experience of the large Brazilian television channel TV Difusora, which began broadcasting to the north-eastern part of Brazil via the Express-AM8 satellite in August 2021, attracted the attention of several television companies aimed at the Brazilian audience.
For almost half a century, Russia and Hungary have been fruitfully cooperating in the field of peaceful space exploration. Hungary, as a member of the European Space Agency, strives for broad and balanced cooperation with its foreign partners in this field. Over the past years, with the participation of various Hungarian and Russian research institutes, universities and companies, the technological and instrumental development of three Hungarian-Russian space research projects has begun: Chibis-AI, Obstanovka-2, Trabant System.
The Roscosmos State Corporation and the Indian Space Research Organization on behalf of the governments of Russia and India signed an Agreement on Cooperation in Space. This document creates a regulatory framework necessary, among other things, for the transition to the practical implementation of Russian-Indian cooperation in the field of engine building.