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Mikhail Kotov — about the first private spacewalk and its features

Two crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission made the first ever private spacewalk yesterday, September 12. Businessman Jared Isaacman and engineer Sarah Gillis in SpaceX spacesuits took turns partially leaving the Crew Dragon spacecraft for several minutes.

The scientific director of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the scientific director of the first stage of the lunar program (research by automatic stations), spoke about the scientific value of the first lunar missions, various approaches to the study of the natural satellite of the Earth, as well as the current state of the Russian lunar program in an interview with TASS academician Lev Zeleny.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched the Chamran-1 research satellite into orbit. It will be used to test software and hardware for testing orbital maneuvering technology.

Private space contractors from the defense industry cannot cope with the ambitions of the Pentagon, and the trade war launched by Washington with China seems to have its negative consequences for the national space industry of the United States, military expert Alexander Stepanov noted.

Former American astronaut, head of NASA in the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017), Major General of the US Marine Corps Charles Bolden, in an interview with TASS, assessed the prospects for cooperation between the United States and Russia in space exploration, shared memories of a joint shuttle flight with Sergei Krikalev in 1994, commented on plans for landing people on the Moon and Mars.

"Newspaper.<url>" announced the dismissal of cosmonaut Babkin, who did not fly to the ISS

Andrey Babkin, a member of the cosmonaut squadron, was offered to resign from his flight position for health reasons. It is claimed that the main cause is a runny nose. At the same time, another reason is the desire of Roscosmos to save money on its preparation, compensating for the budget deficit.

The Egypt International Airshow 2024 International Aviation and Space Salon is taking place at the airport of the city of El Alamein, on the Mediterranean coast, 270 km from the capital of the country. The event is taking place for the first time. According to the Egyptian State Information Service, representatives of more than 100 countries and over 300 aerospace enterprises are taking part in the air show, and on the first day of its work, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited it.

Oleg Kononenko has been making his fifth space flight since September 15, 2023. The commander of the ISS-70/71 expedition launched on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft together with Nikolai Chub and American Loral O'Hara. February 4 (11:30 Moscow time) Kononenko became the new holder of the world record for total stay in orbit. Since 2015, the previous record has been held by another Russian cosmonaut, Gennady Padalka, who spent a total of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, 48 seconds in space during five missions (from 1998 to 2015).

The return of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station is expected no earlier than February 2025, director of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration Bill Nelson said on August 24.

Footage of the launch of the Chinese Ceres-1S rocket from an offshore platform in the Yellow Sea has appeared on the Internet. The launch was carried out on Thursday and, as can be seen from the footage, the whole process was successful.

Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (U-UAZ), celebrating its 85th anniversary on September 1, is a unique enterprise with competencies in the production of both aircraft and helicopters. Today, the equipment of the plant, which is part of the Rostec structure, is supplied to both Russian and foreign customers in more than 40 countries. The main activity of U-UAZ is the production and modernization of Mi-8/17 series helicopters.

For the first time in more than three years, an accident occurred with the Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle with serial number B1062, manufactured by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. The spacecraft was on a mission to deliver Starlink 8-6 satellite communication modules to Earth orbit. However, early yesterday morning, during docking with an unmanned aerial vehicle (station) in space, a rocket engine exploded.

Universities and Reshetnev company signed a corresponding agreement on the sidelines of the Technoprom-2024 forum

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) and Reshetnev University are planning to launch a network master's program for training specialists in the space industry. The universities and Reshetnev signed an agreement on this on the sidelines of the Technoprom 2024 forum, the TUSUR press service told TASS.

It is no longer a secret that in addition to surprise during the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, in the early days, a new tactic of using drones and electronic warfare (EW) contributed to success.

As noted by scientists, this discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation

The lunar rover of the Chandrayan-3 mission studied the chemical composition of rocks at the south pole of the Moon and found evidence that a significant part of the southern circumpolar regions of the Earth's satellite arose as a result of the solidification of a giant "magma ocean" in the early epochs of the Solar System. This discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation, the researchers write in an article published in the journal Nature.

Officer Andrei Bednarsky: Drone operators risk their lives no less than infantrymen

"This has never happened before, so that one calculation could single-handedly destroy dozens of pieces of equipment or hundreds of enemy personnel. Their work for the enemy is very sensitive, and drone operators become the primary target," said Andrei Bednarsky, an expert in the field of UAVs and an officer, in an interview with VZGLYAD newspaper. He also believes that female drone operators perform no worse than men and deservedly receive the highest military awards during their military operations.

The burning of the first stage of the rocket of the German startup RFA ended in failure. During the tests, which involved all nine Helix powertrains, failed, as a result of which the company's plans were violated, which envisioned the implementation of the first orbital launch of the RFA One rocket in the coming autumn. In this case, RFA would become the first European startup to launch a rocket into space.

Experts: Western pilots will use JASSM missiles in Ukraine

Washington and Kiev are working on the technical details of the possible dispatch of high-precision JASSM cruise missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The range of the JASSM will make their carriers – F-16 aircraft – difficult to reach for Russian air defense. According to experts, in theory, new Russian regions and even Moscow could be hit by these missiles. How can Russia respond to this?

The modern battlefield is increasingly becoming an arena of precision strikes, where every second and every meter is crucial. One of the brightest representatives of this class of weapons is the American AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile, capable of hitting both stationary and mobile targets at a great distance. This is an extremely dangerous type of weapon.

Russian experts emphasize that the ISS is not so bad. The station's structures themselves are still strong, Western experts agree. But everything is bad inside. There are more and more breakdowns, the further astronauts go, the more time they spend not on research, but on repairs. And, of course, using part of the ISS nodes for future construction is the right decision. But no.