After the docking of the Nauka module with the International Space Station (ISS) its chief designer, Alexander Kuznetsov, was taken to the hospital with a suspected stroke. This was announced on Friday, August 13, according to a source in the rocket and space industry.

After being launched into near-Earth orbit, the Russian multifunctional laboratory module (MLM) "Nauka" faced a massive system failure that threatens to lead to a serious emergency situation. A source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti about the critical situation with MLM.

The Scientific and Production Association (NPO) of Mechanical Engineering, part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation, has developed a new method for cleaning orbits from space debris using a modular complex. This is stated in the materials of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property.

As reported in Roscosmos, there are no comments on the preparation of the components

Specialists at Baikonur have completed the assembly of the Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle, which, together with the Fregat upper stage, should launch OneWeb satellites into orbit on August 20, Roscosmos reported on Friday.

NASA previously reported that such a landing is not yet possible due, in particular, to delays in the development of spacesuits

The head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, expressed the opinion that the Starship spacecraft can land astronauts on the Moon earlier than 2024. He posted the corresponding entry on Twitter on Saturday.

In September 1999, American researchers discovered a near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of just over 500 m and a mass of 85.5 million tons, which orbits the Sun in an elliptical orbit for 1.2 years. The asteroid was named Bennu after a bird from Egyptian mythology.

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that the two-stage Starship rocket will be able to fly in the near future. The entrepreneur announced this on Twitter.

The corporation postponed the launch indefinitely

The Boeing Corporation has postponed indefinitely the launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). As the company explained on Friday, the decision was made in connection with the need to return the ship to the factory to fix problems in the operation of the engines.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the Keldysh Center is ready to send its specialists to the United States in case of an appeal from the American side

The Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, confirmed his readiness to send Russian specialists to the United States to help American colleagues with solving the problems of the American Starliner ship.

The problems that caused the postponement of the launch of the Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) are probably caused by corrosion of the valves caused by the leakage of the oxidizer, a representative of the Boeing company said during a briefing.

According to the representative of the space agency Joel Montalbano, the launch of a new generation of spacecraft from Boeing should not be expected until mid-autumn. Earlier it became known about serious technical problems that the device encountered.

The satellite will receive and transmit signals of an automatic identification system for tracking the movement of ships and monitoring activities at sea

Vietnam has delivered its NanoDragon satellite to Japan for an upcoming launch into low-Earth orbit. This was reported on Friday by the newspaper "Nyan Zan" with reference to the National Space Center (NCC) at the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology.

The IDEF-2021 exhibition will be held on August 17-20

The Sula radar station, designed to monitor space objects, as well as the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, the Viking anti-aircraft missile system and other air defense systems will be presented by Almaz-Antey Concern at the IDEF-2021 International Defense Exhibition, which will be held in Istanbul from August 17 to 20. This was reported on Friday in the press service of the concern.

The over-the-horizon radar station "Mineral-U" is almost ready, Defense Express reports. The Ukrainian information and consulting agency showed the corresponding video on Twitter.

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The US Defense Ministry announced the signing by the command for the conclusion of contracts of the US Army with Lockheed Martin Corporation of an agreement for the supply of ATACMS OTR for the national armed forces, as well as for the Armed Forces of Taiwan within the framework of the "Foreign Military Sales"program.

As the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko said on August 10, 2021 in a speech at the Single Day of Acceptance of Military Products, by the end of this year the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will receive a new brigade set of the Iskander-M operational and tactical missile system, which will be delivered "ahead of schedule".

Russia is currently the world's leading country in the field of hypersonic weapons and missile defense systems (ABM), the head of the Strategic Command (STRATCOM)said US Armed Forces Admiral Charles Richard.

VR system thoroughly reproduces workflows, the specifics of the special tools and even the nature of materials

The technodinamika holding (part of state Corporation rostec) has developed an intelligent simulator, training manufacture and repair of ammunition for reactive systems of volley fire (MLRS) "Grad" in virtual reality (VR). This was reported to journalists on Friday in the press service of Rostec.

At the Mulino training ground, military personnel of the separate engineer-sapper regiment of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the ZVO used the Uran-6 robotic complex for the first time.