Bundling three recent news about the exploration of the nearest space

As part of the replenishment of the satellite navigation group GLONASS from December 2009 to December 2010 (inclusive), the launch of twelve GLONASS spacecraft will take place, the head of Roscosmos (Anatoly Perminov) said yesterday . The next three satellites are in this December. Perminov also noted that in February 2010 two Gonets satellites will be launched (see the illustration to the right).

Yesterday, the Xinhua news agency reported that China had put the Yaogan-7 satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in the northwestern province of Gansu with the help of the Changzheng-2D (Great Trip) launch vehicle . The satellite will be engaged in collecting data on land resources, assessing the state of sown areas and crops, as well as surveys in the field of space science experiments and disaster prevention . It was developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology.

Well, and finally, in the LJ-community, ru_cosmos, the day before yesterday, there was a slip of information that there is a Russian analogue of the commercial spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, moreover, it is capable of outputting fourteen passengers to low orbit. Chief Designer OKB im. Myasishchev said that flights will begin after 2012.