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The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, announced the signing of an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on the creation of a scientific lunar station. Earlier, Roscosmos was instructed to sign a memorandum of understanding with China on cooperation in the creation of an International Scientific Lunar Station (ISS). What will the station look like and how much will joint work with Chinese colleagues help Russian cosmonautics?

In the coming year, a special military operation will continue, the Russian Armed Forces will grow in number, new formations will be formed, it is planned to receive the latest models of equipment to the troops, and new surface ships and submarines to the fleet. Read about these and other plans in the military sphere in the material of the profile edition of RIA Novosti.

According to the deputy chairman of the Presidium of the NAS of Belarus Oleg Chernyshev, "six of the most worthy" candidates are now undergoing a medical examination

More than 3 thousand candidates from Belarus have applied for a space flight, six applicants have been selected from them. This was announced by the Deputy chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Belarus Oleg Chernyshev on Saturday.

In Moscow, at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense summed up the results of the outgoing year, discussed proposals to strengthen the army. About what decisions were made — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Last Sunday, an attempt to communicate with the InSight research landing platform, which has worked on Mars for more than four years, failed. The device, which has considerably exceeded its service life, did not respond and, most likely, will never be able to. Over the past few months, the energy output of its solar panels has been continuously declining.

L3Harris Technologies has bought Aerojet Rocketdyne, one of the leading manufacturers of liquid rocket engines in the USA and the world, a competitor of the Russian Research and Production Association (NPO) Energomash. This is reported by SpaceNews.

According to academician Rashid Syunyaev, today this is a record

The Russian-European orbital observatory Spektr-RG has detected over 23 thousand galaxy clusters among 1.5 million X-ray sources discovered by the eROSITA telescope during four full and one incomplete sky surveys. This value is a record, Academician Rashid Syunyaev, scientific director of the Russian part of the Spektr-RG mission, said on Monday.

Colonel-General Sergey KARAKAEV, Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, tells about the results of the past year, rearmament, development of new combat patrol areas, about the upcoming ballistic missile launches in 2022 and tasks for the coming years.

London allowed the possibility of supplying Kiev with Storm Shadow cruise missiles

United Kingdom Defense Minister Ben Wallace did not rule out the supply of Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, the final decision has not yet been made. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with the details of the transfer of Western-made aircraft weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Drone attack and how to deal with it

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are currently extremely widely used for a variety of purposes. In this connection, the task of combating them is becoming more and more urgent.

More and more weapons are coming to the Middle East from the eastern direction

In the new geo-economic and geopolitical conditions, the leadership of the People's Republic of China considers military cooperation with foreign countries as a tool for projecting its growing interests.

Ars Technica: Earth's orbit has become a giant dump

Scientists are increasingly beginning to talk about clogging the near-Earth orbit with space debris. Some objects enter the Earth's atmosphere every day and burn up in it, but people quickly create a new one, Arc Technica writes. The situation will soon begin to threaten people's lives.

The Day of Strategic Missile Forces or the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces is celebrated in Russia on December 17. When the holiday appeared, you will learn from the material of radio Sputnik.

The most serious emergency in many years happened on the International Space Station – and this directly affects the astronauts on it. What exactly happened, what danger threatens the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft and why the only salvation may be an urgent evacuation of the crew?

Special manipulators, giant anthropomorphic "hands" for orbital electron beam (ELS) welding were created in Izhevsk by Progress threads under the management of RT-Capital of Rostec State Corporation. The orbital welding method allows the device to "encircle" the products.

RIA Novosti's choice: the main events of 2022 in the military sphere

The beginning of the special operation in Ukraine became the main military event of the year in Russia. This is the first experience of a protracted large-scale military conflict for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the first partial mobilization, the first massive use of a number of weapons.

Pavel Cherenkov — about work on subscriber terminals, protection of the orbital frequency resource of the Sphere groupings, the estimated cost of the program's services and their priority over Starlink and OneWeb in Russia.

The companies claim the same frequencies as the Russian satellite system "Skif", said Pavel Cherenkov, CEO of JSC "Satellite System "Gonets"

Starlink and OneWeb claim the same frequencies as the Russian Skif satellite system, but the application from the Russian Federation was submitted earlier. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the CEO of JSC "Satellite system "Messenger" (controls the operator company "Sphere") Pavel Cherenkov.

Scientists are constantly looking for ways to cope with global warming, and one of the most ambitious projects is the construction of an "umbrella" that will cover our planet from the Sun. The idea seems unattainable, but Luxembourg scientists claim that it can be made easier if you build not one "umbrella", but several small ones.

One of the richest people on the planet, Elon Musk, seems to be playing his subtle political game – and it directly concerns the interests of Russia. At least, many believe that Musk is helping Moscow during the reorganization of the social network Twitter that he just bought. If it helps, then how and for what purposes?