A Chinese spacecraft with a rover on board has reached Mars

The Chinese mission "Tianwen-1" with a rover on board has reached the orbit of Mars. If all goes according to plan, the Chinese rover will land on the surface of the planet in the spring.

NASA has commissioned SpaceX to launch the first two modules of the future Gateway space station. The modules will go to the Moon on a Falcon Heavy rocket no earlier than May 2024.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a press conference on February 9, 2021 in Ankara at the ceremony of proclaiming the ten-year National Space Program of Turkey (Milli Uzay Programi) and the opening of the Turkish Space Agency (TUA), announced the ambitious Turkish space plans. "The national space program will put our country in the top league in the global space race," Erdogan said.

Two NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hai and Ann McClain at the Moscow Cosmonaut Training Center prepare for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Wednesday, February 10, RIA Novosti reports, citing sources in the rocket and space industry.

According to the data provided, the first deeply modernized Ka-52M helicopters may enter the army in 2022. Recently, the Aerospace Forces received the first Mi-28NM.

Rostec State Corporation has received a certificate from the Federal Air Transport Agency for the serial production of PD-14 engines for the Russian MS-21 passenger aircraft. This is reported on the website of Rostec.

The concern of the East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey" has tested an upgraded interceptor drone "Wolf-18", designed to automatically intercept other drones. According to RIA Novosti, now the company plans to present an unmanned vehicle for state tests. They are expected to begin before the end of 2021.

The Chinese and Indian military began withdrawing troops from the joint border in the area of Lake Pangong-Tso. This was announced on Wednesday, February 10, by the press Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Wu Qian.

In particular, we are talking about secret research that concerns aircraft, missile design and cyber weapons

British security services are investigating nearly 200 scientists in the United Kingdom suspected of passing secret information in the field of advanced weapons to China. This was reported on Monday by The Times newspaper, citing an informed source.

Scientists of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia will create for the first time a mobile complex for work in the zone of radiation pollution, as well as a special "field camp" for conducting search operations at low Arctic temperatures. All this is in the plans of the research activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the next couple of years.

The Japanese Coast Guard has released a photo of the SS501 Soryu submarine, which was damaged after a collision with a bulk carrier off the coast of Kochi Prefecture.

Why the US Navy is going to double the size of the military fleet

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said it would take a much larger U.S. navy of 500 ships to contain China's "expansionist ambitions."

Russian Ambassador to Iran Levan Jagaryan announced plans to hold a trilateral naval exercise in the middle of this month in the Indian Ocean.

Two serial diesel-electric submarines of the fourth generation of the project 677 "Lada" — "Kronshtadt" and "Velikiye Luki" — will receive the Russian Navy in 2022, the general director of JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" Alexander Buzakov said on February 9.

The new ice - class patrol ship project 23550-cipher "Ermak" will be commissioned in 2024. The main task of the "Blizzard", as it will be called - the protection of state borders in the Arctic, the protection of Russia's economic resources and the delivery of goods to the unequipped coast of the Arctic. He will be able to overcome almost two meters of ice.

In Kerch, the newest watchtower stood on the water

A solemn ceremony of launching the fourth of a series of patrol ships (PC) of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" took place at the shipyard "Bay". Its predecessors-PC "Vasily Bykov", "Dmitry Rogachev" and "Pavel Derzhavin" have already been tested and successfully solve the tasks.

The Russian 5G network interferes with NATO spy planes, the Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing reports from the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations. Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, which is not a member of the alliance, objected to the use of the 4.8-4.99 GHz band by Russian operators.

In China, a new wheeled tank is being tested, which is a further development of the already well-known ZTL-11 fire support combat vehicle.

As reported by mil.news.sina.com.cn, the old model was armed with a 105 mm rifled gun-a sufficient threat to such tanks as the T-72M1 and M60A3TTS.

The first stage of the pilot operation of the Terminator tank support vehicle (BMPT) was completed at the training ground of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District in the Chelyabinsk Region.

In the southern military district began the teaching of the units of missile troops and artillery of great power. More than 13 thousand servicemen marched in a combined way to military training grounds in the Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd regions, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories.