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On September 23, 2024, after returning to Earth on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the new world record holder for the total time spent in space

On September 23, 2024, after returning to Earth on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the new world record holder for the total time spent in space. During five orbital missions, he flew 1,111 days.

The Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Forces, General Stephane Mill, pointed to the growing number of "rendezvous between objects" in all orbits, which requires the development of active defense capabilities.

For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have revealed what kind of material is on the far side of the moon. Soil and rock samples from a previously unexplored part of the Earth's natural satellite were delivered during the mission of the Chinese Chang'e-6 automatic station. The mission lasted 53 days from launch on May 3, 2024 to landing in Inner Mongolia in the north of China on June 25, 2024.

There are not many ways to change the orientation of a spacecraft in space, all of them are well known in the industry and have long been tested by practice. And given the peculiarities of movement in space, it seems that it is almost impossible to invent something new to accomplish this task. Nevertheless, in the coming years, a satellite with a previously unseen precise orientation mechanism will appear in low-Earth orbit: it will literally wave its solar panels to turn around.

The United States currently uses AWACS heavy-duty aircraft equipped with a large crew and a range of equipment and computers for reconnaissance and combat control. The American company Northrop Grumman has proposed a way to do most of the coordination and calculations away from the vulnerable sky.

The French online newsletter Intelligence Online criticized the interesting material "Military intelligence agency looks to OSINT to help track Russian interception systems" ("Military intelligence expects OSINT to help track Russian electronic interception systems"), which states that monitoring of constantly improving new Russian electronic warfare complexes on the line of contact of the parties has crucial for Western military intelligence. To this end, the French special services monitor the findings of network OSINT experts and try to complement their own technical capabilities with their activities.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.