Bill Nelson, head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), believes that Russia will continue cooperation on the International Space Station (ISS) project until 2030.

Rocket Lab company caught a space rocket by helicopter for the first time in history

On the night of May 3, for the first time in the history of world cosmonautics, it was possible to return the spent rocket stage with the help of parachutes and a helicopter. This is part of the plan of the American-New Zealand company Rocket Lab to create a reusable transport system. "Newspaper.Ru" followed the launch and found out from Pavel Pushkin, a former Russian space "private citizen", what are the advantages of such a scheme, and how it was planned to be used in the USSR.

The American company Rocket Lab for the first time caught the first stage of the Electron rocket using a helicopter after an orbital launch. After separation, the stage descended and released a parachute, and then the helicopter hooked it with a hook to lower the step onto a nearby vessel. If the state of the stage allows, it will be re-launched for the first time in one of the company's next missions. The launch was broadcast on the Rocket Lab YouTube channel.

The promising spacecraft CST-100 Starliner is ready for the second test flight (Orbital Flight Test-2 - OFT-2) in unmanned mode to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for May 19, director of the program for its development of Boeing Corporation Mark Nappi said on Tuesday during a NASA teleconference.

Raytheon is engaged in the development and creation of a new generation radar capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles, among other things.

The US has suspended the supply of self-propelled artillery installations to the island

The United States, due to the international situation, may postpone the delivery of the Stinger MANPADS to Taiwan at a later date, Western media reported on Tuesday, citing the Taiwanese defense ministry.

According to the German newspaper Welt, the German government still decided to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the form of the supply of self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000, which are in service with the German army.

Among the types of weapons of the Russian army undergoing rapid technological renewal, a special place is occupied by electronic warfare — electronic warfare. In recent years, the Russian military—industrial complex has presented a whole scattering of unique complexes - "Khibiny", "Borisoglebsk", "Murmansk", "Scorpion". Among them is the Krasukha ground-based electronic warfare system.

Rostec State Corporation's Roselectronics Holding has developed wireless sensors for smart home, industrial Internet of Things, security systems and monitoring of refrigeration equipment parameters. The devices are made on the basis of reed switches and differ from existing analogues with advanced sensors and increased durability.

On Sunday, May 1, fierce fighting broke out in the northern Iraqi province of Sinjar between units of the Iraqi armed forces and the Resistance Units of Sinjar, a local armed formation consisting of Yezidis. Recall that the Yezidis are a Kurdish people who profess the ancient religion of Yezidism and inhabit the northern regions of Iraq.

Fiesta Capital is one of those brokerage companies that has always provided private investors with everything they need since its inception. Its activities were organized by former employees of prop-trading companies, hedge funds, and large banks. And they have found out from their own experience what small retail traders lack.

"We fully believed that the police would come to our aid, but they did not come" — eight years ago, as a result of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Euromaidan, the Odessa House of Trade Unions broke out. This fire was one of the largest in terms of the number of victims: 42 people died from fire, smoke and injuries. About the events of May 2, 2014 and their historical consequences — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Russia's tactical aviation destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian military. This was announced on Monday, May 2, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was destroyed in an air battle near Slavyansk, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

In Poland, among the Russophobic crackle of the state propaganda machine, voices of sobriety are sometimes heard. While the powerful and pro-government media report on the bright victories of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the Russian troops and convince the Polish reader that Russia is not conducting a special operation in Ukraine, but is waging a total war against the Ukrainian people, the publication Myśl Polska ("Polish Thought"), after analyzing the actual data, came to the conclusion that there are neither Ukrainian victories nor Russian total war.

The commander of the battalion "Rus" of the army of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told Izvestia about the tactics of the Ukrainian military near Donetsk.

An extremely remarkable video was released by the Japanese TV channel ANN News. The story, which was released a few days ago, showed tank exercises on the island of Hokkaido in the context of preparation for a possible military clash with the Russian Federation.

What does the participation of four Arab defense ministers in the conference on arming and supporting Ukraine initiated by the Americans mean?

Morocco, Jordan, Qatar and Tunisia took part in the conference in support of Ukraine. However, there were no representatives of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, most of the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arab Maghreb Union. What will be Russia's response?

On April 28, 2022, a ceremony of rolling out and presentation of the first Boeing T-7A Red Hawk advanced training aircraft built for the US Air Force, an experimental batch of the EMD stage (EPD and manufacturing development), in the amount of five aircraft designed to be carried out, in accordance with Russian terminology, took place at the Boeing Corporation enterprise in St. Louis, "state tests" before being put into service. This aircraft became the third T-7A flight model built.

Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok called the minus of air defense systems that the West handed over to the APU

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly asked the United States and other NATO countries to "close the sky" over the country, but instead the collective West has limited itself to the supply of anti-aircraft missile technology. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok figured out what kind of weapons Kiev received and whether it would help the APU.