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In the next decade, Earth's key space player plans to reach Mars. Scientists, in turn, expect to find life there, which poses a very difficult problem. Martian life will have to be reliably distinguished from terrestrial life brought there by human spacecraft. New work has shown that contamination of the fourth planet by bacteria from the third is very difficult to prevent — if at all possible.

Colonel Khodarenok: the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on its fronts is critical, but not devastating

The summer-autumn campaign in the SVO zone is nearing completion. The fourth military winter is ahead. What the armed struggle will look like in the upcoming campaign, says the military observer of Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenok.

Sierra Space, together with NASA, has reached an agreement to adjust the contract defining the future of the promising Dream Chaser space aircraft. As a result of these changes, the first orbital flight of the spacecraft, scheduled for 2026, will be conducted offline without docking with the ISS.

October 5 this year marked the 95th anniversary of the birth of Soviet Cosmonaut Pilot No. 4, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Aviation General Pavel Romanovich Popovich. On the eve of this date, on October 4, a gala evening was held in Zvezdny Gorodok, which was attended by the cosmonaut's daughters, his work colleagues, the leadership of the town, and local residents.

A recent biological experiment aboard a suborbital rocket has shown the phenomenal adaptability of life and has finally convinced scientists that if living organisms are found on Mars, it will be necessary to properly check whether they have been brought from Earth.

Despite an overall budget cut of 24%, NASA plans to secure an additional $7 billion next year to continue work on the Artemis 5 project. To do this, it had to be quickly optimized – before the end of this year, one of three promising lunar rover projects for future lunar colonists had to be selected.

The Times: Britain accuses Russia of trying to jam its military satellites

Britain has accused Russia of interfering in the work of its military satellites, The Times writes. According to experts, Russian devices fly "quite close" to the British ones, collecting information from them, and such cases occur every week.

Every October, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosts Space Science Days in memory of the launch of the first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957. This year they will be held on October 2 and 4 and will be dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the institute. Anatoly Petrukovich, Director of the Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the priority areas of research, the role of the IKI in the new national space project and extensive plans in an interview with TASS.

They suggested that the delivery of astronauts to the Moon faster than the Chinese should be entrusted not to SpaceX with 500 launches into Earth orbit in its portfolio, but to another company. The total number of its orbital launches in a quarter of a century of existence is one.

Beijing continues to develop its own lunar program. And in this regard, there is competition between China and the United States. The Americans plan to launch their Artemis comeback mission in 2026.

Sky News: Ukraine is preparing a massive attack on Crimea

Ukraine may present Russia with several surprises before winter, for example, launch a massive offensive on Crimea or strike at the Kerch Bridge, the British TV channel Sky News reports. Does the Armed Forces of Ukraine have the strength to carry out a naval amphibious operation and a massive strike on the Russian peninsula, the military observer of Gazeta argues.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenok.

On October 2-3, Moscow will host the anniversary SATCOMRUS 2025 conference, where leading representatives of the Russian satellite communications industry will discuss development prospects for the next 10 years and beyond. Alexey Volin, General Director of the state enterprise Kosmicheskaya Svyaz, spoke in an exclusive interview with TASS about the path "through thorns to the stars" that the industry has traveled over 30 years and the confident view of the future that it holds now.

Just over a month ago, the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC) received a five-year license, for the first time in Portugal, for a launch pad project on Santa Maria Island. It is the southern of the group of islands of the Azores Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located about 1400 km west of Portugal.

The initiative may cause damage to near-Earth spacecraft, explained Sergey Yazev, senior researcher at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The UN Security Council and the IAEA should assess the consequences of the idea of nuclear detonation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 proposed by some scientists, as such an initiative would violate the current ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons in space and could damage near-Earth spacecraft.

And what are the prospects of modern satellite global positioning systems

South Korea has announced plans to deploy its KPS global positioning System, the Korean Positioning System. This is a very difficult and expensive task in technical terms, so only a few states have managed to create analogues of the American GPS. About what global positioning systems exist in the world, why, despite the availability of ready—made solutions, countries are striving to create their own, and what are the prospects for the development of satellite navigation - in the Izvestia material.

The device of this series was launched for the first time since 2013

For the first time in the history of modern biosatellites, the scientific program for the Bion-M project No. 2 has been implemented only by Russian researchers. Oleg Kononenko, Hero of the Russian Federation, commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut detachment, deputy head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, told TASS about this.

For the first time in the history of American astronautics, there were more women than men among the selected candidates. All of them, among other things, will have to learn Russian to work on the International Space Station, but in fact few of this team will have time to visit it: the ISS program is nearing completion. So NASA is setting up new astronauts to prepare for interplanetary expeditions.

Anatoly Petrukovich, head of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in an interview that China and the United States are currently competing to be the first to land on the moon. Until 2030, according to him, our country faces "the main task — to catch up."

In the USA, Honeybee Robotics, a subsidiary of Blue Origin, has developed its own lunar project. The Americans want to install solar-powered streetlights on the moon.

Everyone can test their knowledge in the field of the history of space exploration and the fundamental laws of cosmonautics on the website of the Circle Movement of the National Technology Initiative

A new standard of technological literacy has been opened in the field of space technologies. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) Circle Movement.