British F-35 fighter sank due to a raincoat

The accident of the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter, which drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in November while trying to take off from the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, was caused by a polyethylene raincoat falling into the air intake of the aircraft. The reason for the incident is called "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

The British found and lifted the sunken F-35B fighter from the seabed. The plane crashed from the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in November due to a raincoat caught in the air intake.

According to the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, on December 7, the Kuwaiti Air Force received the first batch of two Typhoon fighters produced by the Italian Leonardo group.

Buying military equipment is half the battle, you still need to be able to service it. December 8, portal scramble.nl He reported that the entire South African fleet of Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter jets was grounded due to delays in contracts for their maintenance.

The American company General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has introduced the Mojave drone for a shortened takeoff and landing. According to FlightGlobal, it will be able to take to the air and land on the ground, sand or deck of an aircraft carrier.

The Government of the Philippines has allocated a total of 62 billion filip. pesos ($1.233 billion at the current exchange rate) for the purchase of 32 additional Polish-made S-70i Black Hawk helicopters for the country's Air Force and six maritime patrol ships (OPV) for the Navy.

The cost of registration of services for visiting the Vostochny cosmodrome is less than 10 thousand rubles for adult citizens of the Russian Federation, for a child - less than 5 thousand, Roscosmos reported.

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region is scheduled for December 23. This was announced on Thursday, December 9, by the administration of the Kargasoksky district of the Tomsk region.

The backup launch date was set for December 24

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for the evening of December 23. This is stated in the message of the administration of the Kargasok district of the Tomsk region.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that all participants in space activities have postponed rocket launches

The launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Briz-M upper stage and the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft is postponed to a backup date. This was reported on Thursday in the Telegram channel of Roscosmos.

Crystals of proteins of the new coronavirus strain "Omicron" will grow on the International Space Station (ISS), said Yusef Hesuani, co-founder of 3D Bioprinting Solutions.

The installation of such engines will reduce the lifetime of space debris

Tests of a plasma engine manufactured by a private company that will be able to hold the position of small spacecraft in orbit have begun in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

According to the state corporation, the launch of 16 microsatellites will be carried out within the framework of the Space-Pi project

Roscosmos plans to launch about 20 microsatellites in 2022, including for leading Russian universities. This was reported on Thursday in the state corporation.

Russia needs to launch about 20 microsatellites into space every year, said Ivan Uteshev, head of the Astronomy Department of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence

About 20 launches of microsatellites need to be carried out annually, and the program for launching such devices requires support on a long-term basis. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of Moscow, coach of the Russian national team in Astronomy and Astrophysics Ivan Uteshev at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with participants of the Congress of Young Scientists on Tuesday.

The Fund of photographs is integrated with other products within the framework of the Digital Earth project

Roscosmos State Corporation has launched a new Internet portal with a database of satellite images of the Earth's surface. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the corporation.

The wreckage of the Soviet satellite shot down on November 15 is under control, they do not threaten existing space objects, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said at a briefing to military attaches of foreign states on Thursday.

The University is preparing a lunar mission, its modeling has already been carried out

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) has created a software package for the analysis and design of space missions on an order focused on import substitution. This was announced at the session of the Congress of Young Scientists on Thursday by the Dean of the Faculty of Space Research of Moscow State University Vasily Sazonov.

The United States has launched the IXPE X-ray telescope (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer). The cost of the mission is estimated at more than 180 million dollars.

The launch of the Electron rocket on May 15 ended in failure, as specialists were unable to put the satellites into orbit

The Electron rocket of the American company Rocket Lab with two Earth remote sensing satellites launched on Thursday from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, the company said in a statement.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched the IXPE X-ray observatory

A Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in the interests of NASA, SpaceX reports. It is noted that the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is installed in the head of the carrier — a 325-kilogram new observatory equipped with three telescopes to track X-ray sources in the Universe.