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This hyperspectral satellite will be used for environmental monitoring projects

China successfully launched the Gaofen-5-02 optical remote sensing satellite into orbit on Tuesday. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

It is possible to train drones to act independently in a critical situation, said the executive director of the enterprise Ivan Antsev

The latest technologies allow us to train drones to make decisions independently and can find application in the event of a real military threat. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the executive director of the scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" Ivan Antsev.

According to Ivan Antsev, Executive Director of Radar MMS, there are also opportunities on board for the introduction of new elements of decision-making support by the operator and navigator staff.

More than 300 digital portable radio stations of the sixth generation "Azart-P1" were received by the state defense order to the troops of the Western Military District (ZVO).

Da Fei and his colleagues from the People's Liberation Army Air Force of China have proposed a way to land a hypersonic UAV, writes the South China Morning Post. To quickly calculate the trajectory of its descent, it is necessary not to increase the power of the on-board computer, but to give it the opportunity to choose between several possible scenarios.

Deliveries of the promising NMESIS anti-ship missile system to the US troops will begin at the end of 2023, according to Naval News. The complex is an unmanned version of the JLTV armored vehicle, armed with NSM anti-ship missiles.

Communicating with followers on Twitter, Musk said that the transition to laser communication will not only speed up data transmission, but also allow the company to abandon ground-based base stations.

After successful tests of the laser maneuverable short-range air defense system (Directed Energy-Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense Systems, DE M-SHORAD), the US Army plans to receive the first platoon of tactical lasers in the next fiscal year 2022.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Sotnik" is planned to be equipped with optical devices for blinding the enemy at a long range, relevant studies are being conducted, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the defense industry.

The State Commission recommended that the Arktika-M system with the spacecraft of the same name be put into operation

Flight tests of the hydrometeorological satellite "Arctic-M" have been completed, it is recommended to put the device into operation. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

The developers of the Printosens company of the Mordovia Nanocenter, which is part of the RUSNANO Group's FIOP investment network, have released the second version of the cyber glove and created new software for controlling robotics, for example, working under water and in laboratories with high risks for the safety of employees.

Engineers of the US Navy have created an unusual portable device that interrupts human speech, which makes it impossible, for example, to speak at a rally.

Roscosmos and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have signed an agreement to supply the UVSPEX ultraviolet spectrograph for the future Russian telescope, which will search for biomarkers in the atmospheres of already known exoplanets. This was announced by Mikhail Sachkov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti.

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on September 30, according to the data of the specialized website Space Launch Now.

Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov began extravehicular activity on September 3

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov have completed a spacewalk, within the framework of which they began work on the integration of the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science". The broadcast of extravehicular activity was conducted on the Roscosmos website.

The launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome is scheduled for October 14. This was announced on Saturday, September 4, by the general director of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed an agreement on the creation of the Spektr-UV ultraviolet space observatory. Mikhail Sachkov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti about this in an interview.

The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Sotnik" is planned to be equipped with optical devices for blinding the enemy at a long range, relevant studies are being conducted, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov were unable to connect an Ethernet cable to the Nauka module, NASA reported on Saturday, September 4, in a broadcast.