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Reception, recording and transmission of data from the satellite to the station took place on November 28

The ground station in Sanya (Hainan Province, Southern China) has successfully received data from the recently launched Gaofen-3-02 Earth remote sensing satellite. This was reported by the newspaper Hainan Ribao.

Specialists from the Naval Engineering Institute in Wuhan have created an electromagnetic cannon the size of a pistol. They told the South China Morning Post about this.

The US Missile Defense Agency has completed the construction of the LRDR (Long Range Discrimination Radar) ballistic target selection radar and has begun testing it. According to Defense News, next year the military will integrate LRDR into the GMD missile defense system and the C2BMC combat information and control system.

ESA and Airbus have signed an agreement on the creation of a new space observatory for the study of exoplanets. It is planned to launch in 2029.

Success Rockets as part of the SR NET project intends to create a satellite constellation to provide broadband communications

Kirill Menshov, Senior Vice President for Information Technologies at Rostelecom, and Oleg Mansurov, founder and CEO of Success Rockets, signed an agreement on cooperation between the two companies. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of the space company.

The carrier, the first stage of which is equipped with a Russian RD-180 engine, launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome

The American company United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V launch vehicle with two satellites on Tuesday by order of the Space Forces of the US Armed Forces. The broadcast is conducted on the ULA website.

Sitronics Group reported that the development of a medium-resolution satellite for remote sensing of the Earth "Zorky" on the OrbiCraft-Pro platform and a device with a submeter-resolution camera "Kinosatnik" is also underway.

The document contains plans for monitoring and evaluating the characteristics of global navigation satellite systems, as well as for the joint application of navigation technologies in the interests of socio-economic development of the two countries.

Data from any commercially available satellite systems will be uploaded to the service

Sitronics Group together with its member company Sputnix will create a single "store" for the sale of space services and data. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the group of companies.

The magazine "Military Thought" published an image of the new radar complex "Island". Its use is described in an article on the development of artillery reconnaissance using an intelligent network control system, published in the journal "Military Thought".

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov proposed to send 500 military instructors from Canada to the country. The head of the Defense Ministry said this on December 5 in an interview with the Canadian edition of The Globe and Mail.

The Russian Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle, launched on Sunday from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, successfully put two satellites of the European global navigation system Galileo into orbit, the launch operator Arianespace said.

Two new European Galileo FOC M9 satellites have successfully separated from the Russian Fregat upper stage. This was announced on Sunday, December 5, on its website by the state corporation Roscosmos.

The device will be equipped with special lasers that will be able to demonstrate the image

The flight sample of the satellite, which will show ads from orbit, will be ready next spring. This was reported to TASS in the company Avant Space.

The possibilities of using an autopilot with artificial intelligence will be studied on the basis of the Ka-226 helicopter, it follows from the materials of public procurement.

The People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic recorded the operation of electronic warfare stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of three settlements controlled by Kiev in the Donbass.

About one hundred units of the VVST received formations and military units of the Central Military District stationed in the Samara, Saratov, Novosibirsk regions, as well as in Udmurtia and the Republic of Tajikistan, in November of this year.

Rostec State Corporation has introduced a new intelligence complex abroad for the first time. The Russian development was shown at the EDEX-2021 arms exhibition in Egypt. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the holding "Roselectronics" of the Rostec state Corporation.

The Director General of Roscosmos said that the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket is planned together with the satellites

The launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites is scheduled for December 27. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Friday at the EAEU business forum "Space Integration".

The head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin appreciated the military satellites of Russia. The orbiters of the Russian Armed Forces are distinguished by high characteristics. This is reported by TASS.