Indonesia has signed a contract for the supply of 42 French Dassault Rafale fighters

The Indonesian Air Force (Air Force) will receive French Dassault Rafale fighters. The planes will be bought instead of the Russian Su-35, which in 2015 were chosen as promising fighters. The contract for the supply of French aircraft was signed on Thursday, February 10, according to the European Defense Review.

The US Air Force has begun searching for a replacement for the E-3 Sentry long-range radar detection aircraft. As follows from the request for information, the military is ready in fiscal year 2023 to conclude a contract for two or more prototypes of a promising aircraft and are looking for suitable companies for this.

The Brazilian company Desaer will develop a hybrid aircraft ATL-100H. According to New Atlas, it will take off and gain altitude mainly due to electric motors, and in cruising mode, for the most part, use turboprop engines.

NATO has sent US Air Force Boeing F-15 and Royal Danish Air Force F-16 aircraft to Estonia and Lithuania, respectively, to strengthen its forces of the NATO Mission to patrol the airspace of the Baltic states, Aviation News reported.

19FortyFive stated that Russia may be afraid of British fighters in the Baltic States

Russia may be afraid of the deployment of British Typhoon fighters in the Baltic States, according to the American publication 19FortyFive.

The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev noted that the initiative can be carried out on the module "Science"

Several institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are preparing proposals for sending scientists to the International Space Station (ISS), RAS President Alexander Sergeev told reporters on Friday.

Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are preparing proposals to Roscosmos to organize a program for sending professional scientists to the International Space Station, RAS President Alexander Sergeev said in Yekaterinburg on Friday.

Roscosmos noted that the countries have been cooperating fruitfully in the field of peaceful space exploration for almost half a century

Roscosmos State Corporation and Hungary signed a statement of intent on further cooperation in the field of space research. This was reported on Saturday in the press service of the state corporation.

Rocket engines of the first and second stages RD-107A/RD-108A manufactured by the Samara enterprise of the Rostec United Engine Corporation provided a successful launch of the Soyuz-ST-B space rocket with 34 OneWeb telecommunications satellites.

The Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle launched from the Kourou cosmodrome at 21:09 Moscow Time

All 34 British OneWeb communications satellites launched on Thursday from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana were successfully launched into orbit by the Fregat-M upper stage. This was reported during the broadcast, which is conducted by the launch operator Arianespace.

Soyuz launch vehicle launches from Baikonur

The next batch of 36 satellites of the British company OneWeb will be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 4. This was announced on Friday night by the launch operator Arianespace.

These exercises will be the first in the world

Scientists of St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) will be the first in the world to study bacterial biofilms (communities of microorganisms) in microgravity. The results of the study will help prevent the appearance of microorganisms inside spaceships and prevent diseases in the ISS crew, the press service of the university reported on Thursday.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and relevant ministers Valery Falkov and Sergey Kravtsov were appointed responsible

Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended that Roscosmos, together with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Education, discuss the financing and organization of launches of student microsatellites. The corresponding instruction was given following a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Science and Education on December 24, 2021.

The launch of the Luna-26 station is scheduled for 2024

The Russian automatic interplanetary station Luna-26 will allow monitoring the activities of foreign state and private spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This was reported on Sunday in the state corporation "Roscosmos".

Roscosmos and ESA have published new photos of Mars from the ExoMars Trace Gas spacecraft

Representatives of the state corporation Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) showed a new image of Mars with part of the Argir plain and the Hooke crater. The photo is published on the official ESA website.

NASA scientists have published an image of the star HD 84406, obtained by the Webb Telescope

NASA scientists have published the first image obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope during the alignment of the main mirror. This is reported on the website of the US Space Agency.

The images are images of 18 blurred points of light

TASS, February 12. The James Webb orbital telescope has handed over to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) its first experimental images after launch. This is stated in the statement of the department, published on Friday.

The creator of the American aerospace company SpaceX has expressed confidence in conducting the first orbital flight of the superheavy Starship launch vehicle, which will be used in the landing of a man on the Moon, this year.

According to experts, the launch of one Falcon 9 launch vehicle costs SpaceX about $50 million

Delivery of 150 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit with the commissioning and full use of the Starship spacecraft of the American company SpaceX in three years may become cheaper than $ 10 million.

The American company Astra unsuccessfully launched a light rocket with five student cubesats. After turning off the engine of the first stage, the head fairing did not have time to open and the second stage crashed into it, and then, when it did open, it spun. The launch was broadcast on the NASASpaceflight YouTube channel.