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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.

We talk about Rostec Corporation products for astronauts and rockets

Rostec State Corporation unites hundreds of enterprises that create unique high-tech products, including for the Russian space industry. Among them are parachute systems, rocket engines, rocket shells and other developments.

Patrick Baudry said that the main struggle in the exploration of Mars and overcoming other space frontiers will unfold between the United States and, in particular, Elon Musk's companies on the one hand and Russia and China on the other.

The speaker of the Federation Council noted that it is difficult to expect a breakthrough when the salary of an engineer is comparable to the salary of a cashier

The revision of the salary system at state-owned enterprises of the space industry is a priority measure to restore the prestige of the professions of engineers and specialists in this field. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday by the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko.

It is planned that the system will be adapted both for the return of the first stage of the rocket and for one-time launches

NPO avtomatiki im. Academician N. A. Semikhatov (NPOA, part of Roscosmos) will develop a technical project of a universal transformable control system for various versions of the Amur-LNG launch vehicle. The development can be adapted both for the returnable first stage of the future methane rocket, and for launches in a one-time version, the company's press service told TASS on Wednesday.

On April 12, Cosmonautics Day is celebrated in the world. 62 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first in the world to fly into orbit. After completing one revolution around the Earth on the Vostok ship, he landed in the Saratov region. Yuri Borisov, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, told TASS in an interview about the development of manned cosmonautics, the Russian lunar program and the tests of the promising Eagle spacecraft.

The Prime Minister inspected the assembly site of the Spektr-UV spacecraft

On Cosmonautics Day, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited the S. A. Lavochkin NGO (part of Roscosmos) in Khimki.

New images of the equipment that will be used by NASA to implement the Artemis II project have appeared on the Web. The posters depict the astronaut's spacesuit and helmet in large-scale. The pictures are impressive, but so far they can only be used as wallpaper on the smartphone screen.