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The Netherlands will buy a smart SMASH AD system to combat drones

The armed forces of the Netherlands will receive new means to combat drones. The Dutch military will be supplied with Israeli Smart Shooter SMASH AD systems. This is reported by Defense News with reference to the statement of the Smart Shooter company.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the state corporation's website has been subjected to a massive DDoS attack from various IP addresses for several days

The control channels of the Russian space industry and satellites are reliably protected. This was stated by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Sunday.

China has put 22 satellites for remote sensing of the Earth into low Earth orbit using the Changzheng-8 launch vehicle, the Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN) reported on Sunday.

Rogozin said that sanctions on the supply of electronics are burdensome for Roscosmos

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with the Russian Cosmos magazine, spoke about the impact of Western sanctions on the state corporation.

OneWeb has not announced its desire to abandon the Russian Soyuz rockets, which are the main means of putting British satellites into orbit, said Dmitry Loskutov, head of Glavkosmos.

Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC, stated that the devices are already under the fairing

The launch of the British OneWeb satellites, scheduled for March 5, on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome will take place. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station by Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC.

Roscosmos claims that the DDoS attack on the state corporation's website was organized from Lviv, the data on the contractor will be transferred to the competent authorities.

As specified in the press service of the state corporation, due to the current situation, the loading time of the site pages may be increased

Technical specialists of Roscosmos are working to neutralize DDoS attacks from foreign servers on the state corporation's website. This was reported to journalists in the press service of Roscosmos on Saturday.

So, the launches of the navigation satellites Glonass-M, Glonass-K and the first promising Glonass-K2 spacecraft have been postponed to 2022

Roscosmos has postponed about 10 space launches since 2021. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with the magazine "Russian Space".

The Ministry of Defense of Russia denied the information that appeared about the alleged "hacking" by hackers of the official departmental website.

A set of compatibility tests of the Termidesk virtual workplace connection manager with the zVirt virtualization system versions 4.3 and 4.4 has been completed, the press service of the Astra Group of companies reports.

It was developed by schoolchildren together with specialists of NIS LLC and VIZARD LLC

The VIZARD-SS1 nanosatellite, which will allow schoolchildren to study ice drift and navigation safety in the Arctic Ocean, will be launched in 2022. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group on Thursday.

Northrop Grumman has received a contract to develop a space surveillance system

The Space Systems Command of the US Space Forces has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman to develop a radar tracking system for geostationary orbit. As part of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) program, three ground stations will be built, Army Recognition reports.

Russia to hold talks with Argentina and Africa on Spektr-M tracking stations

Russia wants to build tracking stations for the Spectrum-M astrophysical space observatory in Argentina and Africa. This was reported to TASS by the head of the FIAN astrocosmic Center Sergey Likhachev.

Astronomers have proposed chlorofluorocarbons as a sign of an alien civilization

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is capable of detecting signs of activity of alien civilizations on exoplanets by atmospheric pollution. This is reported in the preprint of the article published in the arXiv repository. Briefly about the study tells the publication Universe Today.

Academician Zeleny called the Spektr-UV space telescope a "new Hubble"

The Spektr-UV space telescope will allow observation in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, which is inaccessible to observations from Earth. This will allow the Russian telescope to take the place of the American Hubble. This was announced by the Deputy chairman of the RAS Council for Space, Academician Lev Zeleny, RIA Novosti reports.

It significantly increases the accuracy of the RPC

Rostec State Corporation has equipped a number of weapons samples, including the upgraded Pantsir-SM anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPC), with the latest algorithm that significantly improves navigation accuracy. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the High-Precision Complexes holding (part of Rostec).

The holding company "Roselectronics" of Rostec State Corporation will carry out work on the design of the infrastructure of the liquefied natural gas transshipment complex in the port of Murmansk. One of the key facilities will be an automated radio engineering post of the vessel traffic control system, which will ensure the safety of navigation in the waters of the port in the Bay of Ur.

Fly Drone, a portfolio company of the RT-Business Development holding of Rostec State Corporation, which is a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Fund, presented Uber for unmanned aerial vehicles at the UMEX 2022 exhibition. The platform allows you to quickly find a performer for any task that requires the use of a UAV. The exhibition takes place on February 21-23 in Abu Dhabi.

The rocket will launch 46 satellites into low Earth orbit

SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with another grouping of Starlink microsatellites. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.