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The sensor is designed to determine the spatial orientation of the spacecraft relative to the inertial equatorial stellar coordinate system

The small-sized star sensor AZDK-1 for small spacecraft, created in Azmerit LLC (RKS holding, part of Roscosmos), has begun to pass flight tests. This is stated in the message of the holding, distributed on Tuesday.

The functionality of the spacecraft has been fully restored

The Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2 is again operating normally. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of JSC "Corporation "VNIIEM".

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

A recent study, the results of which are published in the journal Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, found that the ever-growing mass of space debris in low-Earth orbit creates another unexpected problem. The fact is that the sunlight reflected from it, falling on the Earth, makes it difficult for astronomers to observe the stars.

The US Army is developing the a-shape (alpha-shape) technique, which will ensure the joint work of several robots in conditions of poor communication between them or even complete lack of it. It will help groups of autonomous robots achieve their goals without interfering with each other and without duplicating actions, even though they will not be able to communicate with each other.

Russian Su-30 fighters will undergo a deep modernization. Yesterday, on May 2, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 version.

The communications and cybersecurity forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will soon receive trucks from the French automaker Renault.

The Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 variant, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Sunday, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed unique footage of the origin of vortices and weather, captured by the Russian satellite "Arctic-M", launched in February. He posted the pictures on his Telegram channel.

The research and production enterprise "Polet" (part of the holding company "Roselektronika" "Rostec") is creating a new antenna for supersonic aircraft, which will significantly increase the range and reliability of aviation radio communications, the press service of the company told reporters on Friday.

Senator Josh Hawley proposed requiring contractors to tell the Pentagon whether they had embedded printed circuit boards made in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. This follows from the bill published on April 28 on the website of the Congress.

Launched on Monday on a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 36 British satellites, together with the Fregat upper stage, are included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian space Control System, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Thursday 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.

The United States is ahead of other countries in terms of the technical equipment of the ordinary soldier. Another example is a video from an exercise where soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment use the latest ENVG-B thermal imaging binoculars.

[b]Astronomers assume that a large star or some other object is orbiting around them.]

The eROSITA telescope, installed on board the Russian-German space observatory "Spektr-RG", has discovered two galaxies, supermassive black holes in the center of which recently awoke and began to produce periodic flashes of light and energy. This is reported by the press service of the Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics of the Max Planck Society (MPE).

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday, according to the specialized website Spaceflight Now.

Specialists of electronic warfare (EW) of the Army Corps of the Eastern Military District (VVO) on Sakhalin conducted exercises to suppress the control channels of the simulated enemy drones and cellular communications, the press service of the VVO reported on Wednesday.

As the practice of many modern local conflicts has shown, even the simplest civilian drones equipped with improvised explosive devices can become an effective weapon in the right hands – which, by the way, is not so easy to resist.

The company demonstrated to the representatives of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission the implemented methods of mathematical computer modeling, with the help of which it is possible to almost halve the debugging and testing processes of aircraft components and components.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a special department for the development of artificial intelligence in its structure. This was reported on the website of the Russian government on April 26.