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The Ukrainian authorities have announced a new threat – Russian planned aerial bombs. They are dropped by aircraft outside the air defense zone of Ukraine and are capable of flying tens of kilometers in order to then deliver an accurate and powerful strike. The Ukrainian command says that these smart winged land mines are now used against the Ukrainian Armed Forces almost daily. Is this so, or is Kiev simply begging for fighters from the West with the help of such complaints?

According to the company's CEO Dan Hart, it was decided to lay off about 90% of the staff of all departments, except for 100 employees

The company Virgin Orbit, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson and engaged in launching satellites, will cease its activities "in the foreseeable future" due to lack of funding. This was reported by CNBC with reference to an audio recording of CEO Dan Hart's speech on Thursday at a company meeting.

The first flight of the heaviest rocket in history is expected in the very near future. Elon Musk recently announced that the tests should be conducted in April. How will the first test launch take place, what does it consist of? Naked Science analyzes in detail the planned flight situations for you.

A month and a half ago, Naked Science wrote that if the preparation of the CST-100 Starliner mission scheduled for April is delayed even a little, the launch will be postponed for several months at once. And so it turned out. In the first half of March, the most important stage was to take place, after which the pre—launch countdown actually begins - refueling the service module with fuel. Until recently, Boeing did not report whether this was done or not, and when the delay became obvious, it explained it with bureaucracy. Moreover, partially shifting the blame to NASA.

The Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian air defense for the first time shot down a new Ukrainian missile "Thunder-2"

The Ukrainian tactical missile "Thunder-2" was shot down by Russian air defense forces in the special operation zone. This is the first time that the Ministry of Defense has reported the interception of this missile. It was developed and produced at the Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash plant. In September and November, massive strikes were inflicted on this enterprise, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of the Grom-2 and Tochka-U production workshops.

The next two decades promise a real boom in flights to the Earth's natural satellite. All these missions will require a reliable infrastructure for orientation in space and on the lunar surface, as well as data transmission. Lockheed Martin is going to capitalize on such promising needs: she has registered a "daughter" who will create solutions similar to terrestrial satellite Internet and navigation.

On the expanded formulation of the concept of "retaliatory strike"

The logic of the global hybrid war forces a decisive revision of the usual formulations of "aggression", "accomplice of aggression", strategies and tactics of retaliatory strikes against the forces opposing Russia. The time for unpunished hybrid nastiness has expired, the consequences for such forces are becoming inescapable.

The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich

During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.

According to the agency's sources, the relevant decision came into force in September 2022, although individual exceptions are allowed for certain specialties in relation to Chinese citizens

The Institute of Space and Astronautics at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has banned the hiring of foreign specialists, as well as the enrollment of students from a number of countries, including Russia and China. This was reported on Friday by the Kyodo news agency .

According to the cosmonaut, the roles of those who perform work outside the ship and those who control the ERA robot manipulator from the inside are distributed in advance in the crew

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina expects to make a spacewalk in the future. She announced this on Thursday at a post-flight online conference in TASS.

The satellite of the US Central Intelligence Agency is used by the Kiev regime to adjust the dropping of bombs. This is reported by the British edition of The Times.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on March 22, 2023, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Is it possible to disconnect Russian residents from global satellite navigation systems? How to ensure the success of Russian technologies in such a sensitive area? The answer to this question is provided by documents on new forms of practical cooperation between Russia and China, appearing during the visit of the Chinese leader to Moscow.

Seoul imposed sanctions on four individuals and six institutions of North Korea

The South Korean government announced a ban on the export through third countries of dozens of materials that can be used to develop North Korean satellites, and also imposed new sanctions, Yonhap news agency reports.

The global market does not have enough rockets to launch satellites. SpaceNews writes about this with reference to the heads of American space companies.

Poland does not hope for an alliance and is arming itself against the Russian Federation

Poland has managed to be a European superpower in its history, and twice completely disappear from the political map of the world.

In the USA, it was decided to postpone the testing of inter-satellite laser communication, the project of which was named Blackjack. This is evidenced by the fact that the official representative of the research organization DARPA subordinate to the Pentagon could not name the exact date of the launch of two Telesat birds satellites into Earth orbit.

Axiom Space plans to deliver a full set of training suits by the end of summer

The American company Axiom Space and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented on Wednesday the first prototype of a new generation space suit, which is planned to be used to land astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

Yefremov, in particular, led the creation of complexes with cruise missiles for firing at ground targets and anti-ship complexes, as well as space systems and naval space reconnaissance vehicles.

Asia Times: The US disguised preparations for a space war with Russia with Starlink satellites

Armed actions in the space "gray zone" are often disguised as commercial activities, writes Asia Times columnist Gabriel Onrada. This is exactly what the US is doing. Using the Starlink system deployed over Ukraine, they are preparing for a space war with Russia and China.