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NSU signed a long-term partnership agreement with the State Corporation Roscosmos and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Roscosmos and Roshydromet will launch satellites created at the university to monitor "space weather" - phenomena in near-Earth space. This was reported by the press service of the NSU.

Washington has imposed so many anti-Russian sanctions that it has almost completely lost the ability to exert pressure on Moscow by this method, former Pentagon chief and former CIA director Robert Gates said on Tuesday, June 22, speaking at a virtual event organized by the Ronald Reagan Institute.

NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope stopped working a week ago, on the evening of June 13, due to a failure of the memory module of the onboard payload computer. Attempts to fix the problem have so far been unsuccessful, so the device can not yet conduct scientific research. This is reported by the publication Astronomy Now.

Expected for more than six months, the deal to acquire a controlling share of the developer of the line of Russian processors "Baikal" is closed. The details of the transaction are not known, but it is obvious that the share of the arrested owner of "T-platforms" in this organization has been reduced to a minimum, and possibly to zero.

The agreement is aimed at the comprehensive development of the joint communication system, said the head of the Main Communications Department of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin

The agreement on the joint (unified) communication system of the armed forces of the CIS member states is aimed at improving the stability of the management of the troops of the parties in solving joint tasks. This was stated on Monday by the head of the Main Communications Department of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin.

Self-driving cars will be able to become full-fledged road users in five to ten years, current communication technologies are vulnerable to hacking and do not allow this, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of digital and technological development, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

60 years ago, the S-125 short-range anti-aircraft system was adopted. It was a response to the changed tactics of the Air Force and is designed to deal with low-altitude high-speed targets.

After the war, the bombers received jet engines and climbed to heights inaccessible to anti-aircraft artillery. On the ground, long-range radars and interceptor missiles were urgently invented - so effective that by the mid-50s, the Air Force was forced to change tactics.

The video diary of innovations of the forum “Army 2021 " is a series of video broadcasts about innovative products of the most advanced enterprises of the military-industrial complex. The broadcasts will be held from August 23 to 27, 2021, during the Army-2021 forum, and are aimed at the heads of the main enterprises and the command of the Ministry of Defense.

Researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Center have shown that graphene can be used to create ultra-high-density hard drives, providing a tenfold leap over current technologies.

The launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place on July 1, the state corporation Roscosmos confirmed on Sunday.

Retired Colonel Viktor Baranets said that Russia has real weapons at its disposal that can strike back at the United States in the event of an attack and missile attacks. His words are quoted by "Moskovsky Komsomolets".

Shvabe Holding will soon supply a mirror for the Turkish DAG telescope in Anatolia, the press service of the holding told Interfax.

Tsniitochmash has developed the PCM 75 collimator sight with unique accuracy and energy consumption characteristics. The device has passed preliminary tests and will be presented at the Army-2021 forum.

Terra Tech JSC, a subsidiary of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the State Corporation Roscosmos) and Promsvyazbank PJSC (PSB) have announced the launch of a joint project on integrated space monitoring and geospatial analysis of the bank's property assets.

This device will be used to study the conditions of exposure to an external electromagnetic field, indicated in the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

China successfully launched the Yaogan-30-09 remote sensing satellite into orbit on Friday. This was reported by the newspaper "Zhongguo Hantianbao".

The Russian Ministry of Defense, based on the military technopolis Era, develops smartphones for the Russian military, as well as specialized mobile applications for daily activities on the territory of military units.

Alexander Osadchuk, Deputy Head of the Department of Information Systems of the Military Department, noted that the Ministry of Defense has very serious restrictions related to information security.

The new de-icing system sensors can be used on both military fighters and civilian aircraft

Advanced military aviation systems will be equipped with sensors of the de-icing system with elements of artificial intelligence (AI). Serial production of the new sensors has already begun, the press service of the Technomash concern (part of the control circuit of the Rostec Technodinamika holding) told TASS on Thursday.

Ukrainian engineers presented a mock-up of the ACE ONE multi-purpose low-visibility strike drone. In its class of combat drones, which can carry weapons up to one ton, ACE ONE is the number one, according to the developers, according to the publication Ligabinesinform.

Tsniitochmash of Rostec State Corporation has developed a new collimator sight PKM 75 with unique characteristics of accuracy and energy consumption.