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Zelensky confirmed Ukraine's first use of American ATACMS missiles

Kiev has received ATACMS long-range missiles from Washington, Vladimir Zelensky confirmed. They have already been used for strikes on airfields in Berdyansk and Lugansk.

About 550 companies from 35 countries will take part in the event

The Seoul International Exhibition of Aerospace and Military Equipment ADEX-2023 will begin work at the Seongnam Air Base. According to the organizers, this year's event should be the largest in terms of the number of participating companies, stands and visitors.

A group of scientists from Germany conducted an experiment and found out that the problem of lunar dust, and at the same time roads and landing sites on the surface of our satellite can be solved thanks to a properly selected lens, which will play the role of a concentrator of sunlight, and local material — regolith.

Shoigu paid attention to the Sarmat missile, the Su-34 bomber and the Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle

Speaking at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club on October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin touched upon the topic of "modern types of strategic weapons", among which he referred to the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The soil samples delivered to Earth from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain water and carbon. With a high degree of probability, scientists will find other "building blocks of life" in the breed of the "space wanderer". This assumption was voiced by NASA representatives during the presentation of asteroid samples, which took place at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Houston.

According to the company's executive director Sergey Krikalev, the leak was registered both visually and by telemetry virtually simultaneously

The specialists were able to use the cameras to determine the exact location of the coolant leak of the external (backup) radiator circuit of the multipurpose laboratory module (MLM) "Nauka". This was stated to journalists by the executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs Sergey Krikalev.

It is planned to deploy more than a dozen specialized ground-based space controls of a new generation on the territory of Russia by 2025, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Kiev has asked the West for analogues of Russian cruise missiles X-101 and Kalibr. Ukraine allegedly needs these weapons in order to hit factories for the production of drones in Iran and Syria. However, strategic bombers and submarines are required to launch such missiles. What is Ukraine counting on?

First of all, the ROS will conduct research on the radiation safety of the crew, it is also planned to study the effect on the body of conditions outside the Earth's orbit, during flights to the Moon and into deep space, said Yuri Smirnov, a leading engineer at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Recently, with the launch into orbit by the National Intelligence Agency and the US Space Forces of the critically important Silent Barker satellite constellation, the head of the US Air Force Space Systems Command, Lieutenant General J. Michael Getlane (Getlin) he said that this system would "deter aggression", showing that the United States has eyes in space.

The North Korean leader conducted a tour of the Far East and Primorye

Chairman of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un completed a six-day visit to Russia on September 18. During his 13 years in power, he has never been so magnificently welcomed, and the programs of foreign trips have never been so intense.

On September 24, the American interplanetary spacecraft is to deliver to Earth a capsule with samples of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu

On September 24, 2023, the American interplanetary vehicle OSIRIS-REx is to deliver to Earth a capsule with samples of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. TASS has prepared a material about the OSIRIS-REx project.

How humanity uses the resources of small space bodies for the development and protection of the Earth

The delivery of soil from the asteroid Bennu to Earth can give rise to large-scale scientific research and industrial study of such cosmic bodies, scientists believe.

According to the French bulletin "Intelligence Online", the current disunity of the intelligence services of Japan, which have the capabilities of remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing), prevents the government from achieving its goals within the framework of close monitoring of the movements of Russia and China in the Kuril Islands and in the waters of the China Sea.

Chairman of the consortium Board, Executive director of the NGO "Android Technology" Yevgeny Dudorov told in an interview with RIA Novosti correspondent Ivan Suraev about plans to "run in" a composite kamikaze drone in the zone of its own, the creation of a line of electric motors for domestic UAVs, the status of the Teledroid project, and also explained what problems need to be solved so that combat robots can massively used on the battlefield.

Known for its research and development in the field of deep—sea technologies, the British company Deep presented the project of the Sentinel research base - an underwater analogue of the ISS. It will be built at a depth of about 200 meters in the so-called epipelagic zone, which is characterized by the highest concentration — up to 90% — of all living organisms in the ocean.

Without satellite Internet, Ukrainian boats do not go on a combat course

One of the richest entrepreneurs in the world, Elon Musk, ordered his subordinates at SpaceX to turn off the Starlink satellite Internet near the Crimean coast, as a result of which the unmanned sea boats (BMK) launched by Ukrainian servicemen to the peninsula with a cargo of explosives did not work.

An analogue of a signaling molecule that stimulates bone growth in animals and humans has successfully passed the first tests in microgravity

TASS, September 18. For the first time, scientists from the USA have successfully tested the work of an experimental drug based on a synthetic analog of the NELL-1 protein in experiments on mice on board the ISS.

Recently, in the press, along with announcements of satellite launches, figures indicating the amount of "garbage" in space have increasingly begun to flash. Naturally, we are talking about man-made space debris.

Colonel Khodarenok considers the transfer of Russian submarines to the DPRK unlikely

Putin called military-technical cooperation between Russia and the DPRK promising, and rumors about sending North Korean volunteers to a special operation are nonsense. How Moscow and Pyongyang can help each other, why Kim Jong-un was shown the production of military and civil aviation, and what cooperation between the countries in the space sphere might look like - the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.