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The Chinese Academy of Space Technologies (CAST) plans to launch five remote sensing satellites of the Ningxia-1 series into orbit on Friday, the specialized American website Next Spaceflight reported.

Snipers of the motorized rifle unit of the Southern Military District (SE), stationed in the Volgograd Region, have started special training on the SKATT shooting simulator.

According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, the first 100 out of 1000 ordered precision guidance kits for HGK-82 bombs were handed over to the Turkish Air Force command on June 24.

The Air Force of the Republic of Korea will receive four additional Falcon-2000S aircraft from Dassault Aviation with a set of equipment for information collection, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).

Roscosmos has signed an agreement allowing to place a space debris search station on the territory of South Africa. This will be the second of four specialized complexes that are being created within the framework of the program.

Now the company's CPUs are manufactured according to the norms of 28 nm

The Russian company " Baikal Electronics, known for its own-developed processors, will invest 23 billion rubles in expanding its product line. 

The Israel Defense Forces conducted more than 30 operations with the help of a swarm of drones in May. According to them, this is the first use of a swarm of drones in combat. According to New Scientist, the drones determined the location and attacked the Hamas militants.

According to the developer, one simulator allows you to train up to three anti-aircraft gunners both in the classroom and in the field

A modern training system for the latest portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS) "Verba" was developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS by Alexander Skorkin, Deputy General Director for Science of JSC "Simulator Systems" (the simulator developer company).

Alexander Skorkin, Deputy General Director for Science of the company "Simulator Systems", said that Russian simulators are in demand both on the domestic and international market

The latest Russian electronic simulators designed for the training of military units can reduce the training time of personnel by six times. This was reported to TASS by Alexander Skorkin, Deputy General Director for Science of the company "Training Systems".

The British company OneWeb plans to complete the deployment of the entire satellite constellation to provide global coverage by June 2022, the company said in a statement published on its website.

The Israeli company Polaris Solutions, in partnership with the Ministry of Defense of the country, has developed a modern camouflage system for military personnel - Kit 300. It makes the soldiers invisible to thermal imagers.

On July 2, the US Space Command explained the situation with an American satellite "secretly launched" from the ISS as an error. The day before on a specialized website space-track.org there was information that the American satellite BD-28 was launched from the ISS.

Former US military captain of the first rank of the US Navy, retired Harry Tabach, compared the Russian army with the "Zaporozhets", and the NATO forces with Tesla. This was announced on Saturday, July 3, according to InoSMI.

China is engaged in the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in manned fighter jets, which turns the latter into partially or completely unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), says the American edition of The Drive.

RSC Energia specialists plan to develop a navigation and communication system for future Russian missions to the moon. This is stated in the corporation's annual report for 2020. 

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle on Wednesday successfully put 88 satellites into orbit, including four vehicles in the interests of the US military department, the developer company SpaceX said.

The director of Orbital Space, Bassam al-Feili, stressed that the launch of the satellite should inspire many young people to connect their future with outer space

Kuwait has launched its own satellite into space for the first time in history. This was announced on Wednesday evening by the founder and CEO of the Kuwaiti company Orbital Space, Bassam al-Feili.

This is necessary so that the telescope can resume observations

TASS, July 1. NASA engineers are preparing to turn on the backup units of the on-board computer of the Hubble orbital observatory, some of the components of which failed in mid-June. The NASA Space Flight Center writes about this on its website. Goddard.

According to the scientist, Russia will be able to launch the Millimetron space observatory only in the mid-2030s. Among the tasks of the device is the study of the global structure of the Universe.

The removal of the devices by the upper stage will take about four hours

The Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 36 British OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome.