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The leadership of Taiwan last Friday joined the international sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation around Ukraine.

Saab has introduced a new 5G Deployet communication system

Saab has introduced a new 5G Deployet secure communications system for the military. The development was presented at the Unmanned Systems Exhibition & Conference 2022 (UMEX) in Abu Dhabi. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The German Space Agency has notified Roscosmos of its intention to turn off its telescope at the Russian-German orbital observatory Spektr-RG, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

Roskomos will be able to buy components for satellites from China, the supply of which will be limited by sanctions, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin

Elon Musk announced the opening of access to the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine

Elon Musk announced that he had opened access to the global Starlink satellite communication system on the territory of Ukraine, writes TASS.

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.