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NASA has completed design and development work on the creation of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, according to the agency's website.

More than 1,450 spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The U.S. Space Force has established an intelligence analysis team at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This was reported on October 4 by the SpaceNews portal with reference to the documents.

The orbital grouping of the Russian Federation currently consists of more than 160 spacecraft (spacecraft), said Colonel Roman Vinokurov, Chief of Staff of the Main Test Space Center (GICC) named after G.S. Titov.

The Russian space forces have detected more than 110 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space rockets since the beginning of 2021, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

A dozen new complexes operating on various principles will appear in Russia until 2025 to control space objects, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

The National Interest explained why launching a hypersonic Zircon missile from a submarine could be a breakthrough. No country in the world has ever carried out an underwater launch of such missiles.

The publication The National Interest evaluated the tests of the "Zircon" from the submarine. Special attention of the author Chris Osborne was attracted not by the first surface launch, but by the second, from an underwater position, scheduled for November.

On the air of the Zvezda TV channel, a prototype of the S-70 Hunter strike drone was shown. The chief designer of the device, Sergey Bibikov, revealed the features of a promising drone in the "Military Acceptance" program.

According to Sergey Bibikov, the chief designer of the Sukhoi UAV, the fundamental difference between the information control system and similar ones for manned aircraft is that it is much more intellectualized.

What does the control panel of the heavy attack drone S-70 "Hunter" look like, what does its pilot see and what happens when communication fails. Part of the secrets of the drone was shown by the Zvezda TV channel.

The main character of the new issue of "Military Acceptance" was the first prototype of the S-70. It is very different from the device that will go into the series.

The combat equipment of the "soldier of the future" will include an exoskeleton, robotic complexes and mini-drones, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov said.

The perimeter security system includes remotely controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun

Tests of the first Prometheus perimeter security system, which includes remotely controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun, will be completed at the facilities of the Russian Defense Ministry this year. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of NPO eLektromashina (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the ROSTEC State Corporation) Igor Afanasyev.

During the NEVA-2021 exhibition, held in St. Petersburg, JSC "Equality" presented a promising marine navigation radar station "Ocean-300" with a 6-foot antenna.

The reasons for this decision are not reported

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft, scheduled for Friday. This is stated in the JAXA message.

A new subsidiary company is being created in the structure of the sHvabe holding, it will be engaged in the installation of equipment and promotion of medical and social ambulances (ASMP) to the market in the Russian Federation and the countries of the Russian Federation.

Specialists of the communications troops of the Eastern Military District (VVO) conducted a large-scale radio training.

During the exercises, they worked out ensuring stable and continuous communication between the control points of the association.

IN 2020, newly created space ground stations were put into operation

The ROSCOSMOS State Corporation provided the launch of 140 domestic and foreign spacecraft in 2020. This is stated in the annual report of the state corporation.

The volume of financing of the state program in 2020 amounted to more than 261 billion rubles

Roscosmos fulfilled 63.9% of the state program last year. This is stated in the annual report of the state corporation, published on Thursday.

Russia and India will host stations of ground navigation systems on a mutual basis. This was announced on Thursday, September 30, according to the ROSCOSMOS report.

Some of the launches under the GLONASS subprogram were not carried out due to the lack of operational necessity "due to the reliability of the devices that continue to function beyond the established period of active existence," the state corporation noted.