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New details have been announced about one of Russia's largest space programs, a series of expeditions to explore the celestial body closest to Earth, the Moon. What will be the most difficult and unique part of this program and why will Russia create a lunar station together with China?

The Swiss company S2A Systems, which monitors outer space, recently made a rather rare observation – it recorded in real time the destruction of a Russian satellite and the formation of a large cloud of debris after its death.

They are inseparable from each other

On January 31, the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics hosted a round table on the topic: "Preservation and development of space facilities, aviation and cosmonautics of Russia: history and future". The participants discussed the strategy of preserving the historical heritage related to aviation and space, ways to integrate iconic objects into the urban environment and the possibilities of involving new generations in the history of space exploration.

On January 27 of this year, a NASA WB-57F aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field airfield in Houston. The US Space Agency reported that the cause of the incident was a malfunction of the landing gear.

Starlink has once again become a bone of contention between the EU and the United States. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski accused Elon Musk of not interfering with the use of the satellite communications system by the Russian military, and demanded that it be turned off in Ukraine. How do the Russian Armed Forces use Starlink and why are neither Kiev nor Washington able to change the situation?

Kathleen Rubins spoke before the committee of the National Academies of the USA and told what is wrong with the new spacesuits for the near landing of Americans on the Moon. Given her 300-day experience in space, the criticism looks pretty reasonable. Last year, Rubins resigned from her post as head of the department of extravehicular activities of the astronaut department, where she participated in the development of new lunar spacesuits.

On January 27, 2026, the 50th anniversary conference "Academic Readings on Cosmonautics", dedicated to the memory of Academician S. P. Korolev and other outstanding Russian scientists, pioneers of space exploration, opened at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

January 20 this year marked the 75th anniversary of the birth of Magomed Omarovich Tolboev, Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation, Major General, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Honorary President of Aviasalon, Hero of the Russian Federation. He spent more than 50 years in aviation and during his career tested 56 types of aircraft, including MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-29, MiG-31, Su-24 and Su-27.

Finnish aerospace company ICEYE, a manufacturer and operator of microsatellites, has announced agreements with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to expand access to high-quality SAR images of its satellite constellation for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The corresponding press release was published on the company's website on January 19.

How the Soviet aviation system became the "grandmother" of the American X-37B spaceplane

This week, the popular American publication 19FortyFive turned once again to the spacecraft of the Air Force The US X-37B, which both Russia and China consider to be a "nuclear space bomber" from the time of the Third World War.

On January 19 of this year, the new Buran exhibition Center opened in the Museum Complex in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. The center's central exhibit is the preserved Buran orbiter (product 2.01), the third and most flight-ready copy of the legendary Soviet Energia-Buran program.

Oleg Kononenko — about the experiments in the field of microbiology that he and his colleagues are conducting on board the International Space Station (ISS).

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has completed the construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Observatory. What secrets can a new deep space exploration tool reveal? Will he be able to detect life in other worlds? Will Russian observers take advantage of its opportunities? TASS investigated the issue.

Any movement on the lunar surface in the eternal night zone quickly saturates the moving object with an electrostatic charge. This not only increases dust buildup, but also creates a risk of high-voltage electrostatic discharge, which can damage electronics. There seem to be a couple of ways to significantly reduce the severity of this problem.

K.K. Vasilchenko participated in flight tests of MiG-9, MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19, MiG-21, MiG-23 jet fighters, MiG-25 interceptor fighter, MiG-27 fighter-bomber and their modifications.

Valery Polovinkin: Russia is capable of resisting the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Black Sea

What is still missing to effectively combat unmanned enemy boats that periodically try to "nightmare" Navy ships, civilian vessels and ports in the Black Sea; how are the new Poseidon nuclear drone and Sakharov's Tsar torpedo connected, does Russia need aircraft carriers and which fleet of the future are the leading maritime powers building - in an interview The scientific director of the Krylov State Scientific Center, Valery Polovinkin, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Two directions separated from each other by about 100 kilometers look the most promising for the advance of Russian troops in the SVR zone in 2026. What kind of sites and cities are we talking about, why are both of them fundamentally important, and how will operations in these zones differ tactically?

At the end of 2025, North Korea showed a colossal achievement – an almost finished nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles. This is not just another North Korean warship, but a real technological breakthrough. And besides, it's a big military-political mystery. What is it about?

On January 10, 1926, 100 years ago, aircraft designer Konstantin Vasilchenko was born, who made a great contribution to the development of fighters at the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the chief designer of the MiG-31 interceptor, the current carrier of hypersonic weapons. TASS is about a man and the warplanes he paved the way for in the sky.

In early January of this year, the 70th anniversary of the Hero of Russia, cavalier (knight) Order of the Legion of Honor (France) to Sergey Vasilyevich Avdeev. The 74th cosmonaut of Russia, he spent 747 days in space during his three flights, setting a world record. He went into outer space ten times.