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Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin noted that "complex and intense work is expected in December"

The next launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome is expected at the end of the year. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during the construction of the combat crew.

The launch of the James Webb space telescope is postponed from December 18 to December 22 due to an incident in the vertical assembly workshop during the preparation of the device for launch, NASA reported.

China has successfully put an Earth sensing satellite into orbit. The Gaofen-3 device is designed to monitor the sea and land, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The radar scans the Earth's surface in 12 modes. From orbit, images with a resolution of 1 m can be obtained. With this technology, the clarity of the shooting is not affected by weather conditions and illumination. The satellite became the second device from the Gaofen-3 series, the first was launched in 2016.

On November 19, 2021, it became known that the state-owned company was on the verge of default. So, a message about a meeting with creditors and large bondholders appeared on the company's website.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, predicted the timing of the emergence of the Internet from space in Russia. He noted that the Sphere program will allow receiving it in 2024, TASS reports.

The Russian Su-35 fighter is equipped with not one, but three radars with an active phased array. The antennas of two additional centimeter-range radars are located in the leading edges of the wings and are designed to search for inconspicuous targets.

A mobile workshop for the repair of radio engineering stations and communications equipment (MRTS) has been received by the joint command of the combined arms army of the VVO, stationed in Transbaikalia, as part of the re-equipment to modern and latest models of the VVST.

The Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy and the training centers of the armed forces successfully work out training tasks on a modern training base.

Modern training facilities are widely used in the training of rocket scientists of both mobile and stationary groups of the Strategic Missile Forces.

The Russian Federation has handed over to Lebanon satellite images taken on the day of the explosion in the port of Beirut. This was stated on November 22 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bu Habib.

Engineers of the State Scientific Center of Russia in the field of photoelectronics of the Shvabe holding are preparing projects for the creation of products for IR technology, including on crystals with the prefix "nano", the press service of the holding reports.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and neural network algorithms were discussed by participants of the joint scientific and technical conference of Shvabe Holding and Dux Company.

The Norwegian autonomous electric cargo ship "Yara Birkelan" made its first voyage - from the municipality of Horten to Oslo. According to New Atlas, while there was a crew on board. For the next two years, the vessel is waiting for tests, the final of which should be certification as an autonomous electric container ship.

They do not require active cooling systems in data centers and can operate at 40 degrees Celsius, the company noted

Yandex has released the first batch of servers manufactured in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the company's press service on Friday.

The United Instrument-Making Corporation, the managing organization of the Rostec State Corporation's Roselectronics Holding, has been designated by the Government of the Russian Federation as the sole provider of telecommunications solutions for the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the period 2022-2023.

The United States analyzed new threats to aircraft carriers. According to experts, they may question the expediency of using this type of weapon, which the United States is proud of.

According to 19FortyFive, underwater drones pose a serious danger to American aircraft carriers. Unlike conventional submarines, they can wait a long time for an aircraft carrier to approach and launch an attack when it is detected. At the same time, underwater drones, unlike the crews of submarines, do not worry about their possible death.

The missile defense system (ABM) of the United States can be disabled with the help of cyber attacks. The author of 19FortyFive, Daniel Gur, named the main shortcomings of the US missile defense system.

China has successfully launched a Gaofeng-11 series remote sensing satellite into orbit, the China Space Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Saturday.

The funds will be allocated for the development of an orbital constellation of weather satellites, Earth remote sensing satellites, as well as for the implementation of the Sphere program

Roscosmos has already received additional financial resources allocated by the government for the development of space programs. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday on the air of the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".

Roscosmos received more than 12 billion rubles from the reserve fund for the lunar program and the creation of new satellites

Roscosmos received the first funds for the creation of the Sphere satellite system, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said.