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Chris Bergin, managing editor of NASASpaceflight, posted on his Twitter channel a video of the movement of the outlandish structure at the Boca Chica cosmodrome. Resembling a giant tarantula with many paws, the mechanism is called "Can Crusher" (Can Crusher). NASA has been using these since 2011, but this version is unique — it was created specifically for SpaceX.

The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to ask for more than 18 billion euros from its 22 member states to finance programs for the next three years, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher said.

The Iranian ground forces tested two guided missiles during the annual defense exercises. The Fatah-360 and Fajr-5 satellite-guided missiles were tested for the first time.

Last Friday, the US National Academy of Sciences, with the support of the US Department of Defense, published a report describing the possible risks of creating a 5G ground network for old satellites that are still used by the military department. Ligado Networks is preparing to start commissioning its system as early as next month. However, the Pentagon is concerned about the implementation of this plan.

The United States supplies Ukraine with high-precision Excalibur artillery shells, as it became known from the Pentagon reports. Since spring, the APU has received about a thousand such shells. Presumably, it was with their help that American howitzers were hitting the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson. How can the Russian army neutralize the excalibur strikes and what analogues do we have for the same high-precision shooting at American artillery batteries?

Among the published archival documents is an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Board of the Ministry of General Engineering, during which the prospects for the development of spacecraft for the study of the planets of the Solar system, including Venus in 1972, were considered.

The first radar satellite of the Russian maritime intelligence "Pion-NKS" has passed state tests

The first Russian radar satellite of naval intelligence "Pion-NKS" has passed state tests, has been accepted for experimental combat duty and has begun monitoring foreign military activities, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.

Roscosmos State Corporation and TERRA TECH JSC (part of the Russian Space Systems holding of Roscosmos State Corporation) are launching a joint portal that will tell about significant changes in nature and ecology, emergency situations, socio-economic processes in Russia and the world visible from space.

The domestic space industry should radically change the approaches to the creation of orbital vehicles, says the head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. How are Russian satellites arranged today, what are their disadvantages compared to foreign competitors, and how are satellites proposed to be changed?

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov suggested that Vladimir Putin knows about the verdict of former journalist Ivan Safronov from media reports.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" published a material by John Ismay "How Russia Uses Low Tech in Its High-Tech Weapons" ("How Russia uses low-tech components in its high-tech weapons"), which provides a summary of the report of the "private independent research group" Conflict Armament Research on the widespread use of Western commercial electronic components in Russian precision weapons and military electronics.

Back in the spring, NPO Avtomatiki, part of the structure of Roscosmos, delivered the first 30 sets of autopilots, which were equipped with self-propelled sprayers of one of the Russian manufacturers of agricultural machinery.

Ukrainian formations are suffering heavy losses, and the influx of foreign mercenaries has slowed down sharply

Over the past month, 174 command posts of brigade and battalion units have been hit in Ukraine, 601 units of heavy weapons and artillery systems, mainly of Western production, have been destroyed, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on September 2.

Companies are ready to create a machine capable of cooling the mirror of the device to 60-70 degrees Kelvin, said Deputy director of FIAN Larisa Likhacheva

The Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) is negotiating with two Russian companies to create a cryogenic machine for use in the Spektr-M project to replace the French concern Air Liquide, which announced its withdrawal from Russia. This was reported to TASS on Saturday by the deputy director of FIAN Larisa Likhacheva.

Course correction in the direction of diplomacy in the Ukrainian crisis. Part 3

The popular opinion in the West that Russia seeks to "conquer" the whole of Ukraine is wrong, writes TNI. The author of the article emphasizes that if Moscow had set such ambitious goals, the ways to achieve them would have been completely different.

According to the researchers, this information will help their colleagues-biochemists to find out which elements and chemicals got into the waters of Mars as a result of their interactions with hot rocks.

A picture of the Antonovsky Bridge in the Kherson region has been published on the Internet after the last blow was struck by the armed forces of Ukraine. The damage to the bridge was captured by the Planet Labs satellite belonging to the American group.

China continues to develop its space program, actively building new launch vehicles and testing new spacecraft, including a reusable rocket plane. According to the Chinese Research Institute of Rocket Technology (CALT), the new rocket plane made a second suborbital flight.

As the number of space objects increases and the near-Earth space becomes increasingly militarized, the associated threats are growing, including for commercial companies engaged in near-space exploration. A special study on this topic, a brief overview of which is published by Breaking Defense weekly, was conducted by experts from the Aerospace Corp. Center for Space Policy and Strategy.

In a few days, according to the plan, the Artemis-1 mission should start, within the framework of which several hundred colonies of terrestrial yeast will be sent on a journey through the Solar System. At the time of launch, all of them will be in a live and active state, and the purpose of the experiment will be to check how long they can live. The BioSentinel project has a horizon of 18 months, but can be extended if necessary.