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As the researchers note, there are currently virtually no telescopes in Russia capable of performing observations at frequencies above 100 GHz

Russian astronomers have proposed building a telescope on the surface of the Moon that would operate in the sub-terahertz range of electromagnetic waves. Such an installation will allow scientists to obtain detailed images of the surroundings of black holes and for the first time study in detail the motion of matter at the event horizon. This was announced on Monday by the press service of the FIAN Astrocosmic Center.

In mid-March 2024, the launch of two Chinese satellites turned into a failure. The upper stage could not provide the correct trajectory, and the payload did not reach the target orbit. The mission was officially recognized as an emergency, but no details about its goals and the course of the flight were reported. New data from the American space intelligence showed that the vehicles were definitely not lost: they made a maneuver to change the orbit.

Lasers for space debris control

Humanity has set up a dump in near-Earth orbit. Millions of fragments of old satellites and other particles of industrial origin are orbiting the Earth, threatening the ISS and other spacecraft. Scientists are developing ways to solve this problem before it's too late.

Cosmonautics and the use of space technology have become firmly embedded in our lives. Our special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks about one of these areas with corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of Earth Science, head of the laboratory at the Otto Yulievich Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth Valentin Mikhailov.

Mikhail Kotov — about the features of the "Chinese space" and the interaction between Russia and China

The Russian government has approved a bill providing for the ratification of an agreement with China on the establishment of a joint International scientific lunar Station (MNLS).

Today, Russia is developing a promising reusable rocket powered by Amur-LNG methane — it will receive a returnable first stage and will take off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. Nikolay Nestechuk, Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos), told TASS in an interview about how the launch complex project is being created now, when construction can begin and what is planned to be borrowed from the Sea Launch.

The Avangard hypersonic missile created in Russia is in fact a complex, the key feature of which is a guided combat unit delivered to the target by an intercontinental ballistic missile. The speed of movement of the block reaches 9.5 km/sec, which provides it with kinetic energy corresponding to 18 tons in TNT equivalent without taking into account the power of the warhead.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket to the ISS was automatically canceled, the engine did not start

On Thursday, March 21, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft was supposed to leave the Baikonur cosmodrome from launch pad No. 31 (Vostok), but the launch was canceled at the last moment. The countdown was stopped about 20 seconds before the start time.

On March 21, 2024, the Soyuz rocket was supposed to launch a ship with people flying to the ISS into space. However, instead, there was an automatic cancellation of the launch at the countdown stage, the first in the history of missiles of this type. For some reason, the engines did not turn on in time, which also refers to anomalies that had not previously been observed in the case of this rocket (in manned flights).

The reconstruction of the Dnieper Flotilla will give Russia access to the right bank of the river

The Dnieper River Flotilla and a brigade of river boats have been formed in Russia. This was stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At one time, such a flotilla made a great contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Its reconstruction is called a significant factor for victory in the SVO, since access to the right bank of the Dnieper can bring down the enemy's defenses.

S.P.Korolev Samara University has completed the development and conducted tests of a tanker designed to refuel Russian satellite vehicles with ion power plants.

Founded in 2022 in the USA, Interlune plans to mine the isotope helium-3 on the surface of the Moon for transportation to Earth and subsequent sale on commercial terms. This seemingly fantastic project has been under development by the company since the beginning of its creation.

ITV: there are no means of countering jammers on the plane of the head of the British Ministry of Defense

The board of the head of the British Ministry of Defense Shapps, which Russia allegedly managed to drown out, was not equipped with protection against such actions. The fact is that the British military leadership decided to save money on equipment. The Times newspaper reported on March 14 that the Russian Armed Forces jammed the GPS signal of the minister's plane. At that time, the pilots could not connect to the Internet for 30 minutes. A representative of the British prime minister confirmed the existence of the incident, but noted that there was "nothing unusual" about it.

Colonel Khodarenok warned that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning to raid thousands of UAVs

Kiev is trying to attack the regions of Russia in order to prevent the holding of presidential elections. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel and RIA Novosti. According to the head of state, similar attacks will continue in "some other areas." How the Armed Forces of Ukraine can try to disrupt the elections in Russia, where and when they can strike and what Russian troops should prepare for - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Saldo told about the "daring" sortie of the Russian military on the right bank of the Dnieper

The day after the attempt of the Ukrainian DRG to break into Russia, the Russian army conducted a "daring raid" on the right bank of the Dnieper. Vladimir Saldo told about it. According to him, the Russians destroyed up to 30 AFU soldiers and a drone control point. The sortie was in the Antonovsky Bridge area in the suburbs of Kherson, after which the Russians successfully returned to the left bank of the river.

What strategic developments are already in service with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and what they are capable of

Almost all the latest weapons systems, the development of which the President of Russia announced in 2018, are already serving in the military, the tests of the rest are being completed.

The spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at the end of September 2022, the Hera probe will arrive at Dimorph in 2026 to study the consequences of this collision

TASS, February 26. Scientists studied images of the Dimorph asteroid obtained by cameras of the LICIACube microsatellite in the first minutes after its collision with the DART probe, and concluded that this incident not only changed the asteroid's orbit, but also led to a global deformation of this celestial body. The scientists' findings were published in an article in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.

Japan has become the fifth country in the world whose automatic interplanetary intelligent station SLIM, developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), made a soft landing on the surface of the Moon on January 20 this year.

Due to the landing on the side, the antennas of the device turned out to be directed in the wrong direction, which made it extremely difficult for them to transmit data. Therefore, there were no pictures from him in the first few days after landing. Now the situation has changed, although it was possible to obtain only very low-resolution images. Nevertheless, the developers hope that the device will be able to transmit some amount of scientific data.

On February 23, the Nova-C probe of the Texas company Intuitive Machines landed relatively successfully 300 kilometers from the South Pole of the Earth's satellite after eight days of flight.