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On October 21 of this year, Hovhannes Artemovich Mikoyan, advisor to the First Deputy General Director – Director of the IC "OKB named after A.I.Mikoyan", turned 75 years old. He was born back in 1949 in the family of the general designer of MiG aircraft A. I. Mikoyan.

The developers promised to deploy a full-fledged multi-component structure in orbit by the time of the planned flooding of the International Space Station, that is, in the next few years.

China plans to expand access to space with the help of a commercial spaceport at the Xichang Cosmodrome. According to Liangshan Daily, on October 9, Liangshan Prefecture and Sichuan Development signed an agreement on strategic cooperation and the opening of the Sichuan Development International Commercial Spaceport.

These words sound too grandiloquent, but we cannot do without them — history is being made before our eyes. The fifth test flight of the superheavy Starship space system fulfilled its goals and ended successfully. Elon Musk has shown that the iterative approach in space exploration works and gives amazing results.

For the first time in the history of cosmonautics, the American company SpaceX was able to land the superheavy Starship rocket carrier on the launch pad after another test launch of the Starship spacecraft being created for flights to the Moon and Mars. The landing of the returning launch vehicle was ensured by the capture of the Mechazilla system.

The future Russian analogue of the Starlink system – providing Internet services from space – should also be of interest to users from other friendly and neutral countries. At least, there are well-founded hopes for this. What advantages can the Russian satellite Internet have and why is the main competitor of domestic developers not Elon Musk at all?

Earlier, seven different companies announced that they would be able to take capsules with samples collected by the Perseverance rover from the Red Planet. Now, a new strong player has suddenly appeared in this competition.

The Day of the Russian Space Forces is celebrated annually on October 4. This date symbolizes an important milestone in the history of Russian cosmonautics and military affairs, because it was on this day in 1957 that the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite, which opened the way for mankind to space exploration.

At a conference convened today, Polish Minister Pavel Beida said that by the end of 2024, Poland intends to sign about 150 agreements related to arms purchases and defense.

As part of the celebrations, the Russian House also hosted the premiere of a documentary film dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, "Embracing the World"

The first Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgy Ivanov became the main character of the festive events held at the Russian House in Sofia. According to a TASS correspondent, the Russian Cultural and Information Center celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Hero of the Soviet Union's flight into outer space and the anniversary of the launch of the first artificial earth satellite, which took place on October 4, 1957.

The International Space Station, even in fully operational condition, is constantly losing air. Normally, the leakage value should not exceed 270 grams per day. But in April 2024, the station lost 1.6 kilograms of its atmosphere every day — almost six times more than allowed. According to NASA's internal estimates, the situation has reached a critical level. At the same time, in the public space, the agency adheres to optimistic rhetoric and tries to present the colossal leak as something only moderately disturbing.

The Arktika-MP spacecraft will be the first to launch, which will provide hydrometeorological information, including weather forecasts on a regional and global scale

From 2025 to 2034, Russia plans to launch a series of hydrometeorological satellites for remote sensing of the Earth, in particular the Arctic region. This was announced by Sergey Zaitsev, Director of the Department of Scientific and Technical Projects of the Roscosmos State Corporation, at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Celestial Empire has products capable of achieving goals in Europe, Asia and the USA

This week, China tested an intercontinental ballistic missile with a maximum-range launch into the Pacific Ocean. We are used to the fact that China is the world's third nuclear power, which has long—range means of delivering nuclear charges, but with a large gap between Russia and the United States in their number. However, the arsenal of this country is growing. Izvestia is about what kind of intercontinental missiles modern China possesses and what it may have in development.

On September 28, the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft was launched using a Falcon 9 launch vehicle

TASS-DOSSIER. On September 28, 2024, at 20:17 Moscow time, the American company SpaceX launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome (state Florida, USA) the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Participants of the Crew-9 work mission - Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov and American astronaut Nick Hague - went to the International Space Station (ISS).

On September 23, 2024, after returning to Earth on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the new world record holder for the total time spent in space

On September 23, 2024, after returning to Earth on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the new world record holder for the total time spent in space. During five orbital missions, he flew 1,111 days.

The Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Forces, General Stephane Mill, pointed to the growing number of "rendezvous between objects" in all orbits, which requires the development of active defense capabilities.

The United States currently uses AWACS heavy-duty aircraft equipped with a large crew and a range of equipment and computers for reconnaissance and combat control. The American company Northrop Grumman has proposed a way to do most of the coordination and calculations away from the vulnerable sky.

For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have revealed what kind of material is on the far side of the moon. Soil and rock samples from a previously unexplored part of the Earth's natural satellite were delivered during the mission of the Chinese Chang'e-6 automatic station. The mission lasted 53 days from launch on May 3, 2024 to landing in Inner Mongolia in the north of China on June 25, 2024.

There are not many ways to change the orientation of a spacecraft in space, all of them are well known in the industry and have long been tested by practice. And given the peculiarities of movement in space, it seems that it is almost impossible to invent something new to accomplish this task. Nevertheless, in the coming years, a satellite with a previously unseen precise orientation mechanism will appear in low-Earth orbit: it will literally wave its solar panels to turn around.

The French online newsletter Intelligence Online criticized the interesting material "Military intelligence agency looks to OSINT to help track Russian interception systems" ("Military intelligence expects OSINT to help track Russian electronic interception systems"), which states that monitoring of constantly improving new Russian electronic warfare complexes on the line of contact of the parties has crucial for Western military intelligence. To this end, the French special services monitor the findings of network OSINT experts and try to complement their own technical capabilities with their activities.