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One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched their "rideshare" to the moon on ...

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According to Technodinamika CEO Igor Nasenkov, the R&D work on creating the system will be started this year MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos intends to place ...