State regulation and financing news
The Senate proposed to cut the budget of the NASA program to land people on the moon
The US Senate appropriations Committee published a bill on the NASA budget for 2021. The Agency will be able to receive only a part of the requested amount for the implementation of the Artemis program to return people to the moon, but scientific programs and the development of new automatic devices and telescopes will be fully funded, according to the website SpaceNews.com.
Rules for responding to emergencies in peacetime and combat will be the same
How to protect yourself from any misfortunes? And who will manage measures to protect and eliminate from all sorts of troubles? The response prepared by the Russian Ministry of emergency situations to these questions can be reduced to one short formula: the same people should be responsible for eliminating all troubles at any time according to the same unified rules. In other words, the response system should be unified, whether it is wartime or peacetime.
Contract for the first two us nuclear missile submarines of the new type Columbia
On November 5, 2020, the US Navy signed a $ 9.474 billion contract with the General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard (GDEB, part of the General Dynamics Corporation) in Groton, Connecticut, for the construction and testing of the first two us nuclear - powered missile submarines of the new generation-SSBN 826 Columbia and SSBN 827 Wisconsin.
Early S-400s: rostec handed over another set of systems to the defense Ministry
Almaz-Antey concern prematurely delivered the last regimental set of s-400 "Triumph" s-400 "Triumph"to the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation. The weapons are very competitive, which the US does not like at all.
The military-industrial complex told what "Sea launch" may be of interest to the Ministry of defense
The floating spaceport "Sea launch", owned by the S7 group, may in the future be of interest to the Ministry of defense for launching military satellites, believes Alexander Ivanov, a member of the Board of the Military-industrial Commission of Russia, who oversees the rocket and space industry.
Experts: lack of landfills and legal framework hinders the development of drones in Russia
Russia does not have the necessary legal framework for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, said Roman Meshcheryakov, Director of the center for intelligent robotic systems at the Trapeznikov Institute of management problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russian scientists create the most sensitive video camera in the world
A team of scientists from the NTI Quantum communications Center at nust MISIS is developing the world's first prototype of an infrared photon video detector - a camera so powerful that it can "see" the movement of single particles of such radiation.
