Electronics and optics news

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to return half of the costs of Russians when switching to domestic electronic components and software.

The launch of the first radar Earth observation satellite "Obzor-R" is planned for next year. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", said the deputy director of the Department of navigation space systems of Roscosmos Valery Zaichko.

The Office will have its own budget

The Ministry of Defense will form an office for working with artificial intelligence with its own budget by December 2021. This was announced on Monday by Mikhail Osyko, a member of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Two Resurs-P Earth remote sensing satellites will be launched next year, said Valery Zaichko, deputy director of the Department of Navigation Space Systems of the state Corporation Roscosmos.

The KRET holding company of the Rostec State Corporation will supply unique platform-free inertial navigation systems for domestic unmanned aerial vehicles. The advantage of the development is high accuracy and the possibility of autonomous operation. The system can determine the coordinates and parameters of the movement of objects even in the absence of land, sea or space landmarks.

The company said that it had established communication with all 36 satellites put into orbit on the night of May 29

The British company OneWeb will be able to start providing communication services after the next launch of its satellites into low-Earth orbit.

This is the seventh launch of OneWeb satellites and the fourth fully commercial launch from the Eastern

All British OneWeb communications satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket have successfully separated from the Fregat upper stage. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Saturday.

According to the IRNA agency, first of all, we are talking about launching satellites into low-Earth orbit of the Earth - from 160 to 2 thousand km

The Iranian authorities are working on several satellites of domestic production, five of which are planned to be launched in the near future. This was reported on Friday by the IRNA news agency.

The company SberAutoTech, part of the Sber ecosystem, has presented a prototype of an autonomous electric transport FLIP, which can become a prototype for the taxi of the future, the company said in a statement received by the editorial office of <url>.

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

An optical system with an enlarged relative aperture has been patented, which, with high image quality, has a shorter optical system length and a simplified design, the press service of the Shvabe holding company said on Thursday.

It was withdrawn for maintenance on May 25

The Glonass-M spacecraft No. 732 (23rd point) was transferred from maintenance to the main part of the orbital group. This is stated on the website of the Information and Analytical Center for Coordinate-time and Navigation Support.

Since the beginning of the year, the troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) have received about 300 units of military and special equipment under the state defense order, said the commander of the troops of the ZVO, Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev.

NtechLab, one of the world leaders in the field of biometric technologies and a technology partner of the State Corporation Rostec, won the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) competition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the US Department of Commerce (NIST).

The module confirmed the claimed characteristics for detecting both small-sized aircraft and helicopters, and mini-unmanned aerial vehicles

The Russian military has successfully tested an economical radar module that can detect planes and drones the size of a sheet of A4 paper, said Colonel Viktor Pigarev, Deputy Chief of the Air Defense and Aviation Forces of the Western Military District, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

The next stages of the project are planned to be completed during 2021-2022

Tula "Instrument Design Bureau" (KBP, part of the NGO "High-Precision Complexes" of the state Corporation "Rostec") and the operators of the scientific company of the Military Innovation Technopolis "Era" are working on the modernization of radar systems developed by KBP to increase their ability to detect low-visibility targets, including anti-ship missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as ground and underwater robotics. This was reported to TASS by the press service of "High-precision complexes".

The People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic recorded the operation of an electronic warfare station (EW) of Ukrainian security forces in the area of three Kiev-controlled settlements near the contact line in the Donbass, the press service of the LPR defense ministry told reporters.

The State Duma has introduced a bill on the "landing" of foreign IT companies in Russia, obliging large foreign Internet companies to open official representative offices in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree according to which it is planned to allocate 5.26 billion rubles until 2024 to support business in the implementation of pilot projects for the introduction of artificial intelligence in various sectors of the economy. 

The Russian government intends to make it more difficult for state customers to purchase foreign software and equipment, writes Kommersant with reference to the director of the "Center of Competence for Import Substitution in the field of ICT" Ilya Massukh.