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The Wenchang International Aerospace Forum was organized in parallel

The authorities of Hainan province held a Chinese cosmonautics conference this week, which was attended by leading experts from China. This was reported by the newspaper "Hainan Zhibao".

The Hungarian government plans to conclude an agreement with the American company Axiom Space, which provides for sending its astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). The fact that Budapest actually refused to fly into space as part of Europe, SpaceNews reports.

Russia has sent the first Internet satellite "Skif-D" into orbit as part of the federal project "Sphere". This event can be considered an important achievement in the practical use of outer space.

The former head of Roscosmos, Rogozin, stated the need to "return" Kiev to Russia

The former head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Russia "needs to return" Kiev. He also told what types of weapons are being tested in the zone of the military special operation, and specified the delivery dates of new weapons to the Russian army.

Mikhail Kotov — about spaceplane projects in the USA, China and the USSR, as well as what functions such devices can perform

For the sixth time, one of the most classified spacecraft, the American Boeing X—37B spaceplane, has been in space and returned to Earth. His first flight lasted a little more than 200 days, but all the others were much longer — from 400 to 900 days in orbit. At the same time, there is very little specific information about what he was doing there in the public domain.

The Chancellor of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Hunt, in an interview with parliamentarians, admitted that an increase in defense spending is extremely necessary, but at the moment there is active work on revising the concept of national security of the country, presented by the former head of the British government Boris Johnson in 2021. In this regard, the bill has not yet been submitted to the British Parliament for final approval.

Losing hegemony on Earth, the United States is making plans to gain leadership in near-Earth outer space, primarily in lunar orbit and on the satellite itself.

Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Karakayev reported on the successful tests of the Sarmat complex

The Sarmat complex, an intercontinental ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear charge of 8 megatons for 18 thousand kilometers, has successfully passed flight tests. This means that he is actually ready to be sent to the troops and combat duty. "Newspaper.Ru" recalls the panic caused by the Western media against the background of the launches of the latest Russian missile.

Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov said that 50% of the market is in the United States

The largest sector of the world economy is the space industry, which has a turnover of about $ 469 billion. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the Director General of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov.

In the first big interview with TASS, the Director General of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, told about how long it will take, at what stage the project of the national orbital station is and why cooperation with NASA continues, despite the geopolitical situation.

The first launch of the SR Space spacecraft is planned in 2024

The private Russian company SR Space (formerly Success Rockets) presented a mock-up of a spacecraft for broadband Internet access at the Aeronet-2035 exhibition in Moscow as part of its project to create a multi-satellite system similar to Starlink. This was reported on Thursday by the correspondent of TASS.

In particular, the devices can be used to ensure the operation of automatic identification systems in civil aviation and the reception of data from sensors of the Internet of Things

Devices for remote sensing of the Earth and the automatic identification system of ships (AIS) of Sputnix were demonstrated to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov and Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin at the Aeronet-2035 exhibition. This was reported to TASS on Thursday by the Sitronics Group.

Anti-satellite weapons are developing rapidly

In October, 65 years have passed since the day when Sputnik-1 (code designation PS-1 - from "simplest satellite") was launched into near-Earth orbit on a Soviet carrier rocket, created on the basis of the R–7 intercontinental ballistic missile, the famous "seven". The spacecraft (spacecraft), whose name has become a household name, made a global furore, forcing the whole planet to talk about itself.

A top-secret American Boeing X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth from space after 908 days in orbit. There is minimal information about this device in the public domain, but even it allows us to draw very interesting conclusions. First of all, about the threat this satellite poses to Russian spacecraft – and not only for them.

The launch was originally planned to take place in the summer, but NASA specialists first encountered a hydrogen leak in one of the engines. Then several hurricanes hit Florida

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched the Space Launch System (SLS) superheavy launch vehicle with the Orion spacecraft as part of the first stage of the Artemis lunar program. The broadcast is conducted on the NASA website .

The launch took place when few people believed that it would succeed this year — even in the space industry. The twelve-year program of a disposable rocket for several billion dollars risks becoming obsolete against the background of new, much cheaper designs.

At the landing complex of the Space Center named after On November 12, NASA's John F. Kennedy (Florida) successfully landed an experimental orbital reusable UAV X-37B (OTV-6).

It is planned that the Gateway station will work on it

The American spacecraft Capstone on Sunday reached the lunar orbit, where it will spend at least six months. This is reported on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Yaroslavl Radio Plant (YARZ, part of the holding "Russian Space Systems" of the State Corporation "Roscosmos") it will become one of the basic regional industrial platforms for training and advanced training of workers for the radio-electronic industry. This provides for an agreement signed by the Director General of YARZ Sergey Yakushev and the director of the Center for Advanced Vocational Training of the Yaroslavl region Natalia Kosterina.

According to the General director of JSC "Information Satellite Systems named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev" Evgeny Nesterov, it is planned to launch two prototypes of the spacecraft

The start of the deployment of the regular Russian grouping of the Skif satellite system, designed for broadband Internet access, is scheduled for 2025. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the General director of JSC "Information Satellite Systems named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev" (ISS) Evgeny Nesterov.