Electronics and optics news

In a few months, a facial recognition system installed in the Moscow metro has helped identify 600 people who are on the federal wanted list. This was announced by the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, speaking at the discussion club of the Higher School of Economics and the BEAC.

For the first time, Roscosmos refused to launch a satellite to a customer due to the maximum load of production facilities. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the organization Dmitry Rogozin.

In Russia, at the GS Group plant in Gusev (Kaliningrad region) A project to localize the production of electronic devices and components has been launched.

The government Commission on legislative activity approved a project that creates a unified communication system for the armies of the CIS countries.

For the sake of security, Russia will create " death zones "that will be almost completely inaccessible to enemy cruise missiles, precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian military department.

According to the General Director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolay Testoedov, the supply of on-board equipment has already been fully completed, the device is assembled and is being tested.

The global virtual reality (VR) market will grow by an average of 51.1% (CAGR) annually and will exceed $ 100 billion by 2026. This forecast was announced in the research company ResearchAndMarkets.

The F-15EX Eagle II fighter of the US Air Force, considered an analogue of the Russian Su-57, received probably the most powerful radar in the world for this type of aircraft, reports The Drive, referring to the developer of the radar station Michelle Stychinsky from Raytheon.

Russia has no plans to purchase Bayraktar attack drones from Turkey, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) told Interfax on Wednesday.

Russia has a space constellation of 162 satellites. This was announced on April 21 by the General Director of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (part of Roscosmos») Nikolai Testoyedov at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The results of scientific research and samples of devices were demonstrated to the experts of the optoelectronic industry and representatives of the leading technical universities of the Russian Federation by the participants of the final round of the corporate project of the Shvabe holding "The Power of Light-2021".

Amazon has signed an agreement with the United Launch Alliance (ULA), which involves launching Kuiper satellite Internet spacecraft on nine Atlas V rockets, Ars Technica reports.

Military personnel who have recently signed a contract and are serving in the electronic warfare units of the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, master the complex "Borisoglebsk-2".

The company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies) has introduced three new unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian use. The presentation of the new products took place on Wednesday in Moscow as part of the ZALA EXPO exhibition.

First Deputy head of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital group and promising projects Yuri Urlichich noted that budget and extra-budgetary investments in the program will be equal

Roscosmos expects that the program for the creation of the multi-satellite group "Sphere" will be approved in the first half of the year.

Rostec enterprises are accelerating the development of domestic radio-electronic products due to the fact that foreign supplies can be stopped at any time, said the head of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec with the support of the Industrial Development Fund (VEB Group.Russian Federation) will increase the production of ultra-high-frequency modules for various radar systems.

The American long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) MQ-4 Triton was able to scout the situation near Voronezh. This follows from the visualization of the capabilities of the drone, presented by the Telegram channel "Military Informant".

Starlink satellite Internet will become mobile by the end of the year. This was announced on Twitter by the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk (Elon Musk).

NASA has developed the SHIELDS telescope probe, which is designed to study the heliosphere (the region of near-solar space that provides protection for all objects in the Solar System) and detect particles entering the Solar System from interstellar space.