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WP: American intelligence expects reduction of the Russian space program

The United States is concerned about China's space potential, WP writes, citing leaked intelligence documents. Washington hopes that the Russian space program will be reduced due to the breakdown of relations with Western partners and disruption of supply chains.

This will allow accepting all types of aircraft

The airport at the Vostochny cosmodrome is currently being actively built, the 3 km long runway will be completed by 1 km in the future. This is stated in the message of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos), distributed on Monday.

The US Space Command (SPACECOM) wants to have the capabilities to refuel and service satellites directly in Earth orbit by 2030, Defense news reported on Thursday.

Mikhail Kotov — about the specifics of working on the creation of a multifunctional, fully reusable two-stage superheavy launch vehicle

On April 20, 2023, SpaceX's Starship rocket system was tested. Without exaggeration, it was the most anticipated start, which has been postponed for more than a year and a half. As a result, the rocket reached an altitude of 39 km, but after that it lost its orientation and was blown up on command from the Ground.

This time the launch did not have to be postponed, the delay was insignificant. However, the rocket exploded at an altitude of 38 kilometers.

According to the company's representative Dmitry Dymov, in particular, the organization is interested in such areas as the development of algorithms for controlling multi-satellite systems, the creation of microchips and chips, wireless and fiber-optic technologies.

On April 20, at 16:28 Moscow time, the American company SpaceX launched a prototype of the reusable Starship transport system from the Boca Chica site in the southeast of Texas in the United States. Four minutes after launch, the prototype of the Starship system exploded, gaining an altitude of 38 kilometers.

Will the Russian Armed Forces "dragon's teeth", hedgehogs and ditches help in the event of an offensive by Ukrainian troops

The armed forces of Ukraine, when attempting an offensive, will face a well-thought-out system of engineering barriers erected by Russian troops, the authors of the newspaper El País write - and warn of potential "colossal losses" of Ukrainian troops. The publication of Spanish journalists was analyzed by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The US Space Forces support a number of programs whose task is to monitor the behavior of Russian and Chinese satellites that may threaten American spacecraft. This is told by SpaceNews.

Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the groups of troops "Dnepr" in the Kherson direction and "Vostok" in the LPR. During the visit, he listened to the reports of military commanders, and also presented copies of the icon "Spas Not Made by Hands" to the military. Why did the head of state go to the frontline areas against the background of reports about the impending counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine?

Sometimes the term "astronomical" is used not only in a scientific context, but also to characterize unusually high financial costs. The "second coming" of man to the moon, 50 years later, as part of the Artemis mission promises to be one of NASA's most expensive projects.

According to Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of one of the directions of Roscosmos, the company's specialists will create a satellite communication technology that will allow voice calls to be made using a conventional smartphone without the use of subscriber equipment.

A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology has developed a map of Mars with an incredible resolution of 5 meters per pixel. It covers at least 99.5% of the planet's surface. To create the map, a database of 110,000 images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera over a 17-year observation history was used.

The new system will become an important element in the development of Russian hypersonic weapons

Behind the training and test launch, which took place on the night of April 11-12 this year from the Kapustin Yar test site, there is a lot of experimental design work to create a new experimental missile system that will replace the Topol-E.

The head of Roscosmos said that Russia will lose manned cosmonautics if it does not make a new orbital station

The appearance of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will be different from the appearance of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Friday by the Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov at the International Film Festival of Films and Programs about Space (ICF) "Tsiolkovsky" in Kaluga.

The Ariane V heavy-class launch vehicle successfully launched the JUICE (Jupiter ICy moons Explorer) automatic interplanetary station into orbit on Friday The European Space Agency (ESA), which is heading to Jupiter to study its three natural satellites, said the operator company Arianespace.

According to Milena Koloteva, head of the Laboratory of Acceleration and Artificial Gravity Physiology at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, medical and technical requirements for creating an on-board centrifuge of short radius are currently being formed.

This will allow students to design spaceships in physics lessons and in circles

The developers of the Russian space simulator "Orbit" have made the program code of the first versions of the simulator publicly available, thanks to this, schoolchildren in circles, in physics lessons will be able to design a spacecraft, simulate its landing on various planets and performing missions in near-Earth orbit.

The development also has a promising practical application in the field of healthcare, said Milena Koloteva, head of the Laboratory of Acceleration and Artificial Gravity Physiology at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Washington and the Pentagon draw conclusions from the Russian special operation

"Are the US military able to learn lessons from the conflict in Ukraine?" – overseas analysts are wondering. According to their observations, traditional and expensive types of weapons, military and special equipment (VVST) have shown low efficiency and high vulnerability in the Ukrainian conflict. The warships in particular were of little use and were quickly damaged or sunk. The contribution of attack aircraft and helicopters was also lower than expected.