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An air leak has occurred on the ISS. The entire crew took refuge in the Russian segment of the station. The entire crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will spend the next three days in the Russian Zvezda module. The devices recorded an air leak at the station.

The ISS-64 crew is preparing for a flight according to the two-turn scheme of the spacecraft rendezvous with the station. According to the two-turn rendezvous scheme, it will be possible to fly to the International Space Station on the Soyuz MS in 3 hours 20 minutes.

The Science module, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the spring of 2021, has arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome. It took less than 10 days to transport the module to the cosmodrome; it took 14 cars to transport it and the necessary equipment.

Sixty years ago, on August 19, 1960, a second satellite 1K, a prototype of the Vostok manned spacecraft, with the dogs Belka and Strelka on board, was launched into near-earth orbit.

The Academician MF Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) will celebrate the 56th anniversary of the launch of the Kosmos-3 launch vehicle.

Three more Gonets-M low-orbit communication satellites are planned to be produced by the end of next year, the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (ISS) company reported.

At the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), tests were carried out, during which experts measured the actual values ​​of overloads occurring on the supports and platform of the transport and installation unit during transportation and verticalization of space rocket.

The next spacewalk of Russian cosmonauts from the International Space Station is scheduled for the end of 2020.

An echelon with a new module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station was sent on the night of August 11, 2020 from the Rocket and Space Plant of the G. M.V. Khrunichev (part of the State Corporation "Roscosmos") at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Experts of the Khrunichev Center with a positive result completed the full cycle of pneumatic tests of the "Science" module.

Dmitry Rogozin, the general director of Roscosmos, considers it is necessary to carry out launches of automatic spacecraft to the moon annually in order to work out soft landing technologies before sending a manned expedition.