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The Skyborg artificial intelligence system for unmanned wingmen has taken to the sky for the second time — this time on the Avenger jet unmanned aerial vehicle. According to the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the flight lasted two and a half hours.

The American company Sierra Nevada Corporation presented the MC-145B Wily Coyote combat aircraft. According to The Drive, it is based on the Polish PZL M28 Skytruck and can carry AGM-144 missiles, GBU-39/B aerial bombs, small drones and other ammunition.

The formation of unmanned logistics corridors can become an extremely promising step for the development of cargo transportation in Russia and increase the attractiveness of Russian transport routes for foreign contractors. This opinion was expressed in an interview in the journal "Vestnik GLONASS" by the head of the Research Department of integrated transport development of JSC NIIAT Tatyana Mikheeva. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) last week published a "joint opinion" on the "Proposal on the regulation of artificial intelligence based on the European Approach"released in April.

In the Kaliningrad Region, the Borisoglebsk-1 electronic warfare system was successfully used against drones.

A patent for an invention for a new electrically conductive coating that can withstand thermal effects up to 250 degrees Celsius was obtained by engineers of the Shvabe holding company from Kazan.

In the United States, when preparing for future conflicts, we should pay attention to modern technologies that will significantly affect the pace of hostilities. It is clear that we are talking about a military strategy to confront, first of all, Russia and China.

The official launch of the telescope is scheduled for 2027

SKA, the world's largest radio telescope under construction, will be equipped with equipment that will allow it to become part of the largest global networks that combine the capacities of the largest radio telescopes in the world. This was announced to TASS by the director General of the SKA Observatory, Professor Philip Diamond.

According to the estimates of the US Air Force command, one of the components of the US strategic nuclear shield – the Minuteman III land-based ICBM needs to be replaced, since many of them have already passed half a century, and their service life is already expiring. After all, they were adopted back in 1970.

Launched on June 25, 2021 at 22: 50 Moscow time from Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region with a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket, the Kosmos-2550 spacecraft is the first "active" radar reconnaissance satellite 14F139 "Pion-NKS" of the space complex of marine reconnaissance and target designation 14K159 "Liana", writes the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

The pilots of the united Russian military base Kant in Kyrgyzstan for the first time performed combat training tasks using the new complex "Electronic polygon".

Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant (VOMZ) will fulfill the contract by the end of 2021 and provide the Kalashnikov concern with a batch of updated collimator sights, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

The notorious American ARES aircraft received a "dome" similar to the famous droid from "Star Wars". Probably, we are talking about a satellite communication system.

Development in It will take at least ten years for the Russian instrument-making industry to create 5G networks. However, the first implementation of domestic infrastructure components may take place before 2023. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Competence Center of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) for Wireless Communication Technologies and the Internet of Things at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Dmitry Lakontsev at the conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" (CIPR). His quotes are quoted by TASS.

Almost all quantum computers created so far are quite large devices that completely occupy the space of the laboratories allocated for them.