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Kalashnikov specialists are developing a combat system with elements of artificial intelligence that will improve the speed of enemy detection and shooting accuracy.

The Progress Rocket and Space Center planned to do this in the second-third quarter of this year

The locator for the Obzor-R radar spacecraft being created in Russia will be delivered in early 2022. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center.

NASA has launched a new monitoring of asteroid collisions with Earth. Now the system more accurately calculates the probability of a dangerous approach. The result of complex calculations can be seen on a separate website, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Asteroids and stars are visible on the resource with 3D visualization. The data is constantly updated, the real picture is displayed. The previous NASA system worked for almost 20 years. In less than an hour, it was possible to get the probability of a collision with our planet over the next 100 years.

The Association of Russian Software Manufacturers RUSSOFT on Thursday presented the document "Export of the Russian software development industry. The eighteenth annual study", which provides a variety of information about the state of the domestic software industry, including "the volume of foreign sales".

The United States has launched the IXPE X-ray telescope (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer). The cost of the mission is estimated at more than 180 million dollars.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched the IXPE X-ray observatory

A Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in the interests of NASA, SpaceX reports. It is noted that the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is installed in the head of the carrier — a 325-kilogram new observatory equipped with three telescopes to track X-ray sources in the Universe.

Radioelectronic Technologies Concern (KRET, part of Rostec) has developed the first domestic servo drive for controlling drones, including at extreme temperatures, Rostec Executive Director Oleg Yevtushenko told reporters on Thursday.

The "new security equation" proposed by Russia can become an effective arms control mechanism to ensure strategic stability, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation will train pilots to operate the Mi-38 helicopter on a special simulator capable of simulating any weather conditions, vibration and sounds of a running machine.

The Fund of photographs is integrated with other products within the framework of the Digital Earth project

Roscosmos State Corporation has launched a new Internet portal with a database of satellite images of the Earth's surface. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the corporation.

According to the state corporation, the launch of 16 microsatellites will be carried out within the framework of the Space-Pi project

Roscosmos plans to launch about 20 microsatellites in 2022, including for leading Russian universities. This was reported on Thursday in the state corporation.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that all participants in space activities have postponed rocket launches

The launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Briz-M upper stage and the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft is postponed to a backup date. This was reported on Thursday in the Telegram channel of Roscosmos.

The American Atlas V launch vehicle, launched on Tuesday, successfully launched a group of satellites into orbit in the interests of the US Space Forces and NASA, the operator company United Launch Alliance (ULA) reported.

A Soyuz-2 rocket and a head fairing for launching OneWeb spacecraft have been delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome, according to the website of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities on Wednesday.

Chinese scientists from the Naval Engineering University in Wuhan said they have created a gun-sized Gauss cannon. This is reported by the South China Morning Post.

Reception, recording and transmission of data from the satellite to the station took place on November 28

The ground station in Sanya (Hainan Province, Southern China) has successfully received data from the recently launched Gaofen-3-02 Earth remote sensing satellite. This was reported by the newspaper Hainan Ribao.

Specialists from the Naval Engineering Institute in Wuhan have created an electromagnetic cannon the size of a pistol. They told the South China Morning Post about this.

The Hubble Space Telescope has returned to full operation. Earlier, he was transferred to safe mode due to equipment problems.

The All-Russian Research and Testing Institute of Medical Equipment of Roszdravnadzor (VNIIIMT) became a part of the Medical Equipment consortium, the press service of the Shvabe Holding, which was the founder of this consortium, reports.

The market volume of industrial solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will show high growth rates, on average by 35% annually. By 2026, the segment volume will reach $102.2 billion. Writes about it writes cdo2day.ru with a link to the IoT Analytics report.