The General Director of the state corporation recalled that the Russian side has a decision to extend the operation of the station until 2024

The fate of the International Space Station (ISS) remains the subject of fierce debate in Roscosmos. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin spoke about the agreement with NASA CEO Bill Nelson to hold the first face-to-face talks in the fall.

Roscosmos has not yet concluded a bilateral agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) on flights of European astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Sergei Krikalev, an adviser to the head of Roscosmos, told Interfax.

According to the head of Roscosmos, planetary protection is one of the most important tasks for cosmonautics

No country can independently create a system capable of changing the trajectory of celestial bodies threatening the Earth.

The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.

At the moment, the Arctic monitoring system, designed to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic region, has already been partially deployed

The Northern Sea Route will be constantly monitored by various satellites of the Russian space project "Sphere" by 2024-2025.

The device will be a demonstration

The first demonstration spacecraft of the Skif system will be launched in the fall of 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the Deputy General designer of the ISS im. Reshetneva Alexander Kuzovnikov in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

In addition, the Marathon satellite system will begin trial operation in 2023

The Gonets satellite communication system is planned to be developed and nine more spacecraft will be launched in the next two years. This was announced by Maxim Diordiev, Head of the Satellite Systems Application Directorate of JSC "Satellite System "Gonets", at the "Sphere" congress within the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

U.S. sanctions could disrupt Russia's construction of a communications satellite for Angola. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the rocket and space industry. The reason for the difficulties was the lack of a permit for the supply of American electronics from a European contractor.

The grouping will also include four high-resolution optical devices and four ultra-high-resolution devices

Fourteen spacecraft will be part of the orbital group for environmental monitoring of the Earth. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and promising projects of the State Corporation "Roscosmos" Yuri Urlichich.

We are talking about the period up to 2030

Russia will launch about 300 civilian spacecraft by 2030 to provide global communications and the Internet of Things. This is stated in the presentation of the First Deputy General Director of FSUE "Space Communications" Alexander Ganin, presented on Tuesday at the congress "Sphere" in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the largest partner with which negotiations are being conducted is the European Space Agency

Russia and China are negotiating with many partners on the possibility of their participation in the project of the International Scientific Lunar Station. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the press conference of the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

We are talking about using electricity to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then by combining them again to obtain electricity and fresh water

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the automotive corporation Honda Motor have agreed to jointly develop a system that allows a closed-loop scheme to provide energy, oxygen and water to future orbital stations and objects on extraterrestrial bodies.

According to the Ukrainian resource "Ukrainian Militarny Portal", the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, presented materials on the advanced project of the medium-range anti-aircraft missile system being developed by it.

According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, for the first time presented a model of the UP-277 medium-range air-to-air guided missile developed by it with an active radar homing head.

At the Adanak training ground in the Republic of Dagestan, a special tactical exercise of the calculations of the coastal missile complex "Bal" of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) was held, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev.

The test launch of the promising GBSD strategic ballistic missile will take place at the end of 2023. It is being developed to replace the aging Minuteman III. According to Airforce Magazine, GBSD will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, work continues continuously on the development and creation of new engineering weapons that meet modern requirements.

Modern 7.62 and 5.45 mm AK-12 submachine guns continue to arrive in the units of the Ground Forces. Since the beginning of the year, new submachine guns have been delivered to the combined arms unit of the Eastern and Western Military Districts.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that introduces additional grounds for refusing to issue licenses for the purchase of weapons. In particular, one of the amendments increases the age of purchase of hunting weapons from 18 to 21 years.