The launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites is scheduled for March 5 at 01:41 Moscow Time

The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle for the launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites will be taken to the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos.

Rogozin said that ESA will launch satellites on its rockets when they have them

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, in his Telegram channel, appreciated the idea of the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch satellites planned for launches on Russian Soyuz rockets on its own rockets.

The head of Roscosmos also suggested that European colleagues were surprised when they read the news about the continuation of full-time cooperation between NASA and the Russian state corporation

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin ironically reacted to the idea of the European Space Agency (ESA) to use European rockets to launch satellites into orbit, which were planned to be launched on Russian Soyuz rockets.

The state corporation compared partners with ostriches

The sanctions imposed by the European side are causing real losses to Roscosmos. The state corporation will evaluate them and put them up for payment to partners in Europe, the press service of Roscosmos told TASS.

Roscosmos will bill Europe for losses due to the shutdown of the Spectrum-RG telescope

Roscosmos will bill Europe for losses due to the shutdown of one of the two telescopes of the Spectrum-RG observatory, TASS reports, referring to the state corporation.

Among them are technical reports on ground tests and preparation for spacecraft launches, reports on electrical tests, flight assignments, letters from the Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Another joint space program for Russia and the West, apparently, will be suspended due to the military operation in Ukraine.

The helicopter covered almost 4.3 km in a year

The Ingenuity helicopter has already completed 20 flights during its year on Mars, covering a total of 4,227 meters. This was announced on Tuesday on its website by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), located in Pasadena, California.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has agreed with the private aerospace company SpaceX to add three additional missions to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon ships.

According to the plan for the supply of the main samples of weapons and military equipment, two new mobile radars "Casta" with improved characteristics have entered service with the units of the radio technical troops of the Central Military District stationed in Siberia.

Thirty years of the Scientific research center of the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Smolensk

The military air defense of Russia has gone a long way in development, starting from the three-inch anti-aircraft gun of the 1915 Franz Lender model to the modern S-300V4 long-range air defense system equipped with hypersonic anti-aircraft guided missiles.

The training on the protection of airspace on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was conducted by servicemen with combat calculations of the S-400 Triumph and S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems of the air defense units (air defense), the press service of the Eastern Military District reported on Tuesday.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply an additional S-400 complex, which is needed to be located west of Minsk.

The first detailed video of the tests of the hypersonic anti-ship missile "Zircon" appeared on the Network. TV journalists went to sea on the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" to witness the launch of two cruise missiles at once: "Caliber" and "Zircon".

More than 500 servicemen took part in the exercise

Calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical missile systems of the Central Military District (CVO) at an exercise in the Orenburg region worked out the destruction of the base camp of a conditional enemy at a range of more than 300 km, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

The calculations of the Iskander-M missile defense system worked out the destruction of the base of the conditional enemy in the exercises

Iskander-M operational and tactical missile systems (OTRK) were used at the exercises of the Central Military District (CVO). The OTRK calculations worked out the destruction of the target at a range of more than 300 kilometers. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Central Military District.

Having suffered serious losses in military equipment, Ukrainian formations are forced to use crude armored vehicles that have not passed full-fledged tests.

For example, in Kharkiv, during one of the armed provocations, a Kevlar-E infantry fighting vehicle was seen, which is, in fact, a mock-up model made for demonstrations at various weapons exhibitions.

The armed formations of Ukraine continue to massively use the car fleet of the unilaterally privatized property of three military districts of the Soviet Army, formations withdrawn from Eastern Europe, as well as various power structures of the USSR.

These are ZIL-131, GAZ-66, Ural-4320, Ural-375, KrAZ-255, KrAZ-260, KamAZ-4310 and UAZ-469 all-terrain vehicles.

The Croatian company DOK-ING presented an innovative multi-purpose remotely controlled Komodo machine at the 5th UMEX-2022 Unmanned systems Exhibition in Abu Dhabi.

British Challenger 2 and BMP Warrior tanks deployed in Estonia

The British contingent in Estonia was reinforced with additional Challenger 2 tanks and Warrior infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). The number of deployed British armored vehicles in the country was named by the Minister of the Armed Forces of Great Britain James Happy, reports UK Defense Journal.