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Acting Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University Andrey Yakovlev and Head of the NTI Competence Center "New and Mobile Energy Sources" at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka) Yuri Dobrovolsky paid a working visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna last Friday.

Engineers of the MiG Corporation (part of PJSC UAC of the Rostec State Corporation) have received a patent for a non-linear correction device for automatic aircraft control systems.

Alphabet Holding (Owned by Google) has announced the closure of Loon-a project to develop Internet access using balloons flying in the stratosphere. The company considered the company's business model unstable. This is reported by CNET.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Sunday successfully launched a record batch of 143 mini-satellites, including 10 spacecraft, to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.

Japan's Nikkei Asian Review believes that Russia is beginning to yield to China in the development of new weapons and military technologies. Gradually, this lag may become irreversible. China is becoming the world's number two arms exporter. Russia is the third. Beijing is targeting traditional Russian arms markets.

A decision on the readiness of the communication satellite payload for operation will be made in the near future

The decision on the readiness of the payload of the Express-80 communication satellite for operation will be made in the near future, experts have already conducted its flight tests. This is stated in a video posted on Wednesday on the official channel of JSC "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" (ISS) on YouTube.

More than 20 units of modern weapons and special military equipment will be received in 2021 by the units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, the press service of the CVO reports.

Google decided to blackmail Australia. This country will disable the search engine if the Australian parliament passes a law that could deprive the IT corporation of a considerable share of revenue. Facebook also joined the ultimatum. This is a precedent in world history. From now on, no one knows which next sovereign country the IT giants will present an ultimatum tomorrow. Is Russia waiting for such a scenario and how can it respond?

Work on its modernization has been completed

The modernization of the transmitting and receiving parts of the Don-2N radar station has been completed. At the moment, the radar is undergoing final preparation for testing, said the commander of the anti-missile defense unit of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Major General Sergei Grabchuk.

The first batch of the latest artillery reconnaissance systems "Penicillin" has arrived in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General director of the concern "Vega" (part of the Russian Electronics Corporation "Rostec") told RIA Novosti") Vyacheslav Mikheev.

According to some Russian publications, this year Roscosmos will launch five GLONASS satellites. The first device is scheduled to be sent in the spring, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Two models of new-generation satellites will be launched into orbit. "Glonass-K" and "Glonass-K2" emit a larger number of signals. The service life of these devices is about 10 years. At the moment, the group consists of 28 devices.

The Don-2N multi-functional radar, the central and most complex element of the Russian missile defense system, has been upgraded and is being prepared for testing. The performance of the computing system has increased by four orders of magnitude, and its size has decreased fourfold.

Among the announced items: a rail booster, drones that can be launched into the air with a grenade launcher, electromagnetic cannons and combat lasers.

The Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School received a batch of small-sized satellite communication stations "Belozer".

We remind our readers that the main "standard" block of a quantum computer is a quantum bit, a qubit that can simultaneously store and process the quantum information contained in it.

The crisis year 2020 for the whole country paradoxically turned out to be very successful for the production of domestic tractors and combines. Sales of agricultural machinery within the country and export of agricultural machinery have also increased sharply. What is the reason for such achievements of the whole industry and whether it will be possible to repeat this success in 2021?

According to an informed source, the promising Russian module "Science" for the ISS found new technical problems. Experts do not consider them fatal and do not plan a new postponement of the launch.

The command of the Navy has decided on the duty station of the newest corvette project 20380 "Aldar Tsydenzhapov". Initially, it was planned to send it to Kamchatka, but in the end, the ship's home port will be Vladivostok.

In Syria, the third US helicopter crashed in the air, and the Americans are inclined to believe that the reason for this is the work of Russian electronic warfare stations (EW).

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a new batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday, designed to continue the deployment of the Starlink system's global Internet coverage network, developer SpaceX said.