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Seven amazing conclusions that can be drawn based on the first image of the "deep field" from the James Webb telescope

Yuri Borisov, who replaced Dmitry Rogozin in this post, became the new CEO of Roscosmos from mid-July. Naked Science understands what inheritance (and in what condition) he got it.

As a result of a serious personnel reshuffle, the curator of the "defense industry" in the rank of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov moved to the post of head of Roscosmos, and his place was taken by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. The new deputy head of government made a policy statement – it was decided to move from an absolutely market-based industrial policy to a policy of protecting technological sovereignty. How will this happen?

Dmitry Rogozin spent a little more than four years as the head of Roscosmos. Looking back now, it is clear that he managed to do a lot. In 2018, when he came to the position of head of the state corporation, the situation in the industry was not the best.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched another batch of 53 mini-satellites into orbit on Sunday to replenish the orbital grouping of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

According to the American resource "Breaking Defense" in the Teresa Hitchens material "Newest sats launched by DoD include jammer-evading, classified payloads" ("The latest satellites launched by the US Department of Defense include a secret payload to avoid interference"), on July 2, 2022, Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne air launch vehicle It has placed seven small experimental military satellites with promising secret payloads into low-Earth orbit as part of the US Department of Defense space testing program.

Canada has decided to join its allies with plans for space and create a special space unit that will be responsible for operations on earth and space. As stated in the Ministry of Defense, the military appreciated the importance of space troops for the security of the country.

Dmitry Litovkin — about what is known and what can be assumed about the missile system being developed for the Russian Navy

The Russian military-industrial complex continues to surprise with new developments. As it became known to TASS sources, a new Serpentine missile system with a hypersonic striking element is being developed in the country.

Ukraine is carrying out terrorist attacks on settlements occupied by Russian troops. The main striking means for this are the American HIMARS rocket launchers recently delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What are the features of this type of weapon, how is it most dangerous – and in what way is the Russian army able to destroy it?

At the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region, the installation of all seventeen levels of the cable refueling tower for the Angara family launch vehicles has been completed. This was told by the press service of Roscosmos.

Rogozin instructed the astronauts on the ISS to stop working with the European ERA manipulator

Russian cosmonauts will not use the European ERA manipulator installed on the Nauka module on the ISS, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said. He made this decision in response to the refusal of the European Space Agency to cooperate with Russia on the ExoMars program. Roscosmos has been involved in the project since 2012, but now plans to launch a research mission to Mars on its own.

The Ukrainian leadership loudly declares the preparation of a large–scale counteroffensive - and first of all, in the south, in the direction of Kherson and Mariupol. Is it worth believing these reports, does the Ukrainian army have the necessary forces – and where does Kiev have such ambitions?

The team of the James Webb Space Infrared Observatory presented the first set of scientific data obtained by the observatory. It includes images of the star formation region, a planetary nebula, a compact group of galaxies, as well as spectra of the atmosphere of hot Saturn and distant galaxies. The press briefing was broadcast on Youtube.

The Shanghai Academy of Space Technologies reported on the beginning of a previously undeclared experiment. On the recently launched Changzheng-2D rocket, Chinese engineers placed a test device for accelerated data from the orbit of space debris — a kind of braking parachute, or sail.

Although the probability that fragments of a space rocket will "return" to Earth, injure or kill someone is small, and most of them are likely to fall into the ocean or somewhere safe, the researchers warn that the risks increase over time.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ending its previously suspended cooperation with the Russian state corporation Roscosmos on the ExoMars-2022 Mars program, the head of the agency, Josef Aschbacher, said on Tuesday.

In response, the Russian ISS crew stops working with ERA, a remote—controlled robotic arm developed by the European Space Agency.

During the tests of the first stage of the superheavy Starship rocket, an explosion occurred under its engine block. The rocket did not collapse, but the launch pad, apparently, received minor damage, so the tests were stopped.

The completion of the construction of the second stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome with a launch table for the Angara family of rockets will allow launching from Russia all spacecraft weighing from three to 27 tons. This was announced by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin, reports TASS.

As part of the Artemis program, it is planned to create an inhabited station in orbit around the Moon. Since the gravitational field of the Earth's satellite has strong local disturbances, it is difficult for the spacecraft to stay in lunar orbits for a long time. To test one of the possible stable trajectories, NASA launched the CAPSTONE mission, but almost immediately after separation from the upper stage, communication with the probe disappeared.