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Colonel Khodarenok called the acquisition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine a vulnerable point in the defense of Ukraine

The Russian Armed Forces continue to deliver powerful strikes against military-industrial complex facilities and oil refineries in Ukraine. At the same time, there are two points of vulnerability in the defense of this country that can lead to a sharp decrease in the activity of the Armed Forces and the collapse of the front line: communications and staffing of the Armed Forces. About the problems in the defense of Ukraine - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

A team of researchers from Italy and the United States has proposed two ways in which a hypothetical probe can quickly reach one of the most remote and poorly studied objects in the Solar system. We are talking about Sedna, a trans—Neptunian body that is located beyond the orbit of Pluto. According to engineers, these advanced technologies will be able to deliver the device to Sedna in seven and 10 years.

The US Space Force has signed a contract with Elon Musk's company to deploy a new MILNET satellite communications system. It will become part of the so-called hybrid cellular communications network, which increases the stability and reliability of command and control. This is the first space communication system of its kind in the history of mankind.

Chinese cosmonaut Tang Hongbo noted that in zero gravity, fish seem to completely lose their orientation

The astronauts of the Chinese manned mission Shenzhou-17 conducted experiments on the orbital station related to fish farming in zero gravity. This was told to a TASS correspondent by Chinese cosmonaut Tang Hongbo, who took part in the Shenzhou-12 and Shenzhou-17 missions.

June 26 of this year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev. He was in the first cosmonaut squadron of the USSR, preparing to fly on the Vostok, but Yuri Gagarin was sent. He joined the crew with A. Leonov, flew, but Leonov made history when he went into outer space. But it was Belyaev, as the commander of the ship, who led the operation and it was he who gave the command to go into space and informed the Earth about it.:

- A man went into outer space!

Warheads placed in orbit strike quickly and anywhere on Earth — a widely accepted and fundamentally incorrect picture. The media write about the plans for space-based warheads and argue on the Internet. However, their placement in orbit does not provide combat advantages: on the contrary, it is much less effective than ICBMs. Let's find out why this is so.

Researchers from New Zealand have considered a threat to the ozone layer when earthlings reach at least a couple of thousand rocket launches per year. According to their calculations, it should start to degrade significantly. Interestingly, Elon Musk plans several thousand launches annually, that is, even more. Despite this, some problems in her work make her conclusions far from indisputable.

Official Islamabad marked the beginning of the calendar summer with a series of breakthrough agreements on cooperation in various fields. They have been reached with a number of friendly countries, including Russia. However, the agreements with China still turned out to be in the focus of everyone's attention. Pakistan's long-time strategic partner in the field of military-technical cooperation has offered the country a huge upgrade of its air force and missile defense, to which neighboring India is unlikely to find anything to respond.

TNI: Putin can arrange a "space Pearl Harbor" for America

So far, Putin has not attacked US or NATO satellites, but he is probably slowly preparing to arrange a "space Pearl Harbor" for America, writes TNI. After all, with the help of American satellites, Ukraine has been unceremoniously destroying Russians since the beginning of hostilities in 2022.

Over the past decades, scientists have tried many different ways to produce building materials on the Moon, but mostly they required various additives for strength, turned out to be energy-intensive or involved the creation of monolithic large structures. Now, a team of space engineers has demonstrated a technology that makes it possible to dispense with only lunar soil and relatively economically manufacture small parts of the "constructor" from it.

On June 8, 2025, in Moscow, in the Red Banner Hall of the Central House of the Russian Army, a traditional meeting of veterans of the Baikonur cosmodrome was held in honor of the 70th anniversary of the cosmodrome.

Khodarenok: the Russian offensive in the Dnepropetrovsk direction will lead the Ukrainian Armed Forces to disaster

Units and formations of the Russian Armed Forces reached the western border of the DPR and began fighting already in the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region. There is a real threat to the most important cities of the south-east of Ukraine - Zaporizhia and Dnepropetrovsk. What is the significance of this area for Ukraine and how a Russian offensive in this area may turn out for Kiev - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

In the 2020s, the Japanese had already attempted to deliver moon rovers and other payloads to Selena. However, one of the vehicles, in the private Hakuto mission, crashed, and the second landed upside down, which did not allow him to implement a scientific program. The second landing by the same private company that sent the first Hakuto mission did not go according to plan either.

Kommersant newspaper in Oleg Rubnikovich's article "Through kickbacks to the stars. The bribery case of the former Deputy General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Armaments has been completed," she reported that, as it became known, the investigation of a high-profile criminal case has been completed, the main person involved in which is Oleg Frolov, former Deputy General Director for the implementation of the state armament program of the Roscosmos State Corporation, who previously headed the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy and the General Directorate armaments of the Ministry of Defense. He and other defendants in the TFR are charged with committing a number of corruption-related crimes. According to the verdict of the court, the accused face decades in high-security colonies.

Elon Musk attacked Trump for refusing to cut government spending, believing that this was leading America to bankruptcy. He also said that without him, he would not have come to power. In response, Trump proposed cutting government spending by stripping Musk of all contracts.

Colonel Khodarenok predicted an escalation in the fields of his military in the summer of 2025

At the second round of talks in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine exchanged memoranda on a cease-fire, and also agreed on a new prisoner exchange. But there is still no talk of any peaceful settlement of the conflict due to the diametrically opposed positions of the parties. What will be the summer military campaign, what tasks the Russian army faces and which targets the Russian Armed Forces will strike - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

The political revenge against Musk by a number of Republicans and the replacement of the future head of NASA have created an unprecedented threat to the agency's scientific projects. Now there are plans to curtail the financing of nuclear engines for space.

According to estimates by an international team of researchers, the lunar craters contain platinum and other precious metals worth more than a trillion dollars. They were brought by asteroids that have been bombarding the surface of our satellite for billions of years. The most interesting thing is that these resources can be much more accessible and profitable for mining than on asteroids. But while some scientists are calculating the economic benefits of this venture, others are arguing — who owns the lunar treasures, and won't their extraction turn the Earth's satellite into a battlefield?

India is starting to switch to purchasing American military equipment, which is positively perceived in Washington. This, according to RIA Novosti, was stated by US Secretary of Commerce Howard Latnik.

A burial orbit is used to remove expired satellites

Technologies for cleaning space from debris are being developed by many scientific groups, but so far humanity does not have effective ways to get rid of thousands of inactive vehicles and their debris. At the same time, over the past decade, the number of operating satellites in low-Earth orbit has increased almost 10 times, Polina Levkina, a researcher at the Solar System Research Department at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS.