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In the coming year, the program of re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces with new equipment should be completed

In the coming years, Russia's strategic nuclear forces will reach a fundamentally new level. Already in 2021, they will be equipped with only the most modern equipment.

Gazprom and Roscosmos have signed a cooperation agreement under which the production of

civil spacecraft, in particular Yamal satellites and Earth-sensing devices, will be created, the gas holding said in a statement. The production will be established in the Moscow region.

The United States is going to curtail cooperation with Russia in space, the only joint project is the International Space Station (ISS), said the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

According to the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin, this will make the grouping more accurate

Several GLONASS navigation satellites will be launched into orbit in 2021. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The control point of the space echelon of the missile attack warning system (SPRN) has been upgraded, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian missile attack warning system consists of two echelons: space and ground

The Russian Space Forces tracked more than 80 launches of foreign and domestic rockets in 2020. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Specialists of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in 2021 provided the launch of 21 Russian spacecraft into orbit, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, Russian developers have corrected the shortcomings previously identified in the Angara-A5 rocket. Now the carrier corresponds to the declared characteristics.

Funds for the creation and launch of the Spectrum-UV telescope ("World Space Observatory — Ultraviolet") have been allocated, RIA Novosti reports the statement of the scientific director of the Institute for Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Lev Zeleny.

The Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS) has improved the photographic equipment for Russian weather satellites, which will allow to determine the temperature of clouds and the earth's surface with high accuracy, the press service of the holding reported on Tuesday.

The satellite weighing more than 3.5 tons was created by the European corporation Airbus Defense and Space

The Russian Soyuz-ST launch vehicle with the French CSO-2 reconnaissance satellite successfully launched on Tuesday from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. The live broadcast is available on the website of the space launch operator Arianespace.

A decision on the future of the International Space Station (ISS) is planned to be made in the first quarter of 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

we are Talking about an experiment on the spectroscopic study of gas nebulae

The Russian-Indian experiment on spectroscopic study of gas nebulae, which will take place at the Chinese orbital station, will begin in 2023, and not in 2022, as previously announced. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director for scientific work of the Institute of astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the main scientific organization in the project) Mikhail Sachkov.

Vladimir Putin proposed declaring 2021 the Year of science and technology. This initiative is not accidental-despite Western sanctions and the pandemic, the innovative economy is increasingly coming to the forefront in Russia. What are the main scientific and technological successes achieved by domestic scientists and industry in the past year?

on Board is a radar that will allow you to get an image with a resolution of up to one meter

The launch of the radar satellite "Obzor-R" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for the third quarter of 2021, according to the state contract published on the public procurement portal.

under these conditions, nuclear deterrence remains a key element in ensuring Russia's military security, said Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General staff of the Russian Armed forces.]

The spread of military confrontation to cyberspace and outer space increases the risks of interference in control systems and the use of nuclear weapons, chief of the General staff of the Russian Armed forces, army General Valery Gerasimov, said at a briefing for foreign attaches on Thursday.

Success Rockets has signed an agreement to build a private spaceport on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan by 2025. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the company.

Chinese scientists have made a map of lunar craters, discovered AI

Chinese scientists have discovered more than 100 thousand new craters on the moon. They were helped to do this by artificial intelligence, which learned to search for almost invisible objects better than a human.

The Chinese medium-class rocket "Changzheng-8" ("Great campaign-8", CZ-8) on Tuesday launched into orbit with a secret satellite XJY-7, as well as a group of space micro-devices, a live broadcast was conducted on the Chinese website DouYu.

The us Department of Commerce has included several dozen Russian enterprises and organizations in the list of those to be subject to export restrictions. The us authorities consider these companies "military end-users", which makes them subject to export control rules. This means that they will need a license to export or re-export certain goods.