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It will promote universal development, Beijing noted

The Chinese Space Station is open for cooperation with all countries, its task is to promote universal socio-economic development. This was stated on Tuesday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

China is building the Tiangong space station in space, preparing to become the first state in the world to possess such an object alone. This moment is already close, as China has begun the final stage of creating its own space station.

According to the SpaceNews web resource, on October 25, 2022, Elon Musk's SpaceX company began accepting pre-orders for a flat-panel antenna for the terminals of the Starlink system, which will allow ground vehicles to use the Starlink broadband service while driving.

At the famous Avito site, an ad was noticed in which an eight—wheeled all-terrain vehicle with the name "Shaman" is offered for purchase for 15.5 million rubles - Roscosmos teams meet returning cosmonauts on a similar transport.

In the dusty desert of Arizona, an unusual vehicle is riding – an inhabited rover for a future lunar mission. It was developed at NASA specifically for the Artemis program, which assumes that astronauts will make long hikes and set up camps away from the main lunar base. To do this, they need something more than just a trolley with a motor, so in the end, engineers designed a full-fledged mobile home for trips on the Moon.

What can the escalation of relations between Russia and the United States in space lead to

Russia may target American space satellites if they are used to transmit intelligence to Ukraine, said Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Whether Moscow will go to this, what the United States can answer and what consequences to expect in this case - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned about the possibility of a strike on US satellites that are involved in the conflict in Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow offers the United States and other countries of the world to agree on the demilitarization of outer space, but on a reciprocal basis. What kind of satellite systems are we talking about? And why can such a step on the part of Russia have not only positive, but also negative consequences?

We are talking about the involvement by the West of components of civil infrastructure in space, including commercial, in armed conflicts, said Konstantin Vorontsov, Deputy director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Researchers suggest that it may be the cause of marsquakes

The scientific team of the InSight mission has received the first evidence that reserves of liquid magma can still be hidden in the depths of Mars, potentially capable of participating in manifestations of volcanic activity. The scientists' findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The statement by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Konstantin Vorontsov at the UN that Russia reserves the right to consider US commercial satellites used for military purposes to help Ukraine as a "legitimate target for retaliatory strike" caused an ambiguous reaction among Russian users of social networks.

Shoigu: Putin is leading the training for a retaliatory nuclear strike

On October 26, nuclear weapons tests were conducted under the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a response to a possible nuclear strike on Russia was being worked out. The military checked to what extent the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sineva ballistic missile and the air-launched missiles launched from the Tu-95MS conform to their characteristics. The US was warned about the exercises.

The maximum amount of funds to pay for the state contract should not exceed 41.7 billion rubles

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order that allows Roscosmos to conclude a contract in 2023 for the performance of experimental design work (R&D), the result of which will be, among other things, the sending of astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023-2027. The relevant document was published on Wednesday on the legal information portal.

The corresponding initiative in the UN was supported by Belarus, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Nicaragua and Syria

Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, China, the DPRK, Nicaragua and Syria advocate the development of a legally binding document on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. The joint statement of the countries was read on Tuesday by Konstantin Vorontsov, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, at a meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.

The presence of these rocks in the Moon's mantle explains how its bowels showed volcanic activity 2 billion years ago, the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported

Chinese planetary scientists have found traces of fusible mantle rocks in soil samples delivered to Earth by the Chang'e-5 mission, which contributed to the preservation of a high level of volcanic activity on the Moon for at least 2.5 billion years of its existence. This was announced on Friday by the press service of the headquarters of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KAN).

Chinese military scientists have published a technique that allows massively disabling satellites over a given territory using a hydrogen bomb. Moreover, this method differs from the previously proposed or even tested methods of anti-satellite warfare with nuclear weapons in the selectivity of the striking action. According to the statements of its developers, a specially organized detonation of the charge should affect only vehicles on specific orbital planes.

The Starlink satellite communication system, kindly provided to Ukraine for free use by the owner of SpaceX, Elon Musk, is in fact the only communication channel for providing communications for the APU both locally and over long distances. Musk recently announced that he was no longer ready to finance the work of receiving and transmitting stations, much less supply new ones, at his own expense, but quickly changed his mind under the outright pressure of the US authorities.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov said that the financing of the Starlink satellite communications, which caused a conflict between Kiev and the entrepreneur, can be carried out from three sources

The Ukrainian authorities are in direct contact with entrepreneur Elon Musk on the issue of SpaceX's Starlink satellite communications, and are trying to resolve the contradictions.

A very significant military space agreement was signed by one of the leading private space companies with Luxembourg. It is planned to create a so-called mobile cosmodrome in this country, and it will be used for the urgent launch of military satellites in the interests of NATO. The very method of launching satellites is no less exotic.

The richest businessman in the world is burdened by relations with Ukraine

The richest man on the planet, American entrepreneur Elon Musk, put forward the plan "Peace of Ukraine and Russia" (Ukraine – Russia Peace). An important detail: the SpaceX company controlled by him has been providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) for almost eight months secure space communication services, independently paying for the lion's share of them.

The Starlink satellite Internet system, whose services are provided by the American company SpaceX, headed by engineer and businessman Elon Musk, has practically no alternatives in Ukraine. Experts interviewed by the American edition of Breaking Defense admitted this.