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The United States intends to continue operating the International Space Station (ISS) after Russia withdraws from the project. The station will be used until 2030. This was announced by the head of the American ISS program Joel Montalbano, reports TASS.

The head of Roscosmos Borisov announced Russia's decision to withdraw from the ISS project after 2024

Russia has decided to abandon the project of the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024, said the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Yuri Borisov. Nevertheless, all obligations to partners will be fulfilled, he noted.

The special operation taking place in Ukraine has revealed one of the main advantages of the Russian military machine – advanced air defense and missile defense systems. Domestic anti-aircraft missile systems not only confirmed their characteristics, their capabilities were even higher than expected. This was especially clearly shown by the results of attacks by American missiles on Russian targets.

The Keldysh Center, located in the Moscow Likhobors, has been engaged in space engines since its foundation. Now work is underway here on one of the most promising projects of Russian cosmonautics – a nuclear tug for interplanetary flights "Zeus".

The Chinese laboratory module "Wentian" successfully went into space and docked to the base module "Tianhe" of the Chinese space station. The module was launched at 14:22 local time (9:22 Moscow time), and the docking with the station took place at 03:45 local time (22:45 Moscow time) the day before.

Stremousov said that the APU struck from HIMARS on the bridge at the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region, said that a bridge near the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as well as a bridge over the Ingulets River near the village of Daryevka, were fired from Ukraine. He is sure that the Americans fired at the second bridge from the MLRS M142 HIMARS.

Roscosmos plans to place a GLONASS measuring station in Venezuela, the state corporation reported.

Anti-Russian sanctions will have to be overcome in the space industry as well

Roscosmos announced Russia's withdrawal from the ISS program in 2024-2028 and the start of work on the creation of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS), which they want to put into polar orbit by 2030.

Polish experts believe that their predictions came true and the turning point in the war in Ukraine occurred when the Americans handed over the HIMARS MLRS to the Kiev junta. They allow you to accurately attack targets at a distance of more than 70 km, which supposedly makes it possible to cut off Russian troops on the front line from the supply of fuel and ammunition. Polish analysts believe that if the objects for destruction are correctly identified, the Russians can be forced to stop or retreat, and after the ammunition runs out, they can surrender.

"Power plants, water substations, factories, distribution networks, transformer substations may be under the blows of American missiles." This is how LDNR representatives describe possible targets of new missiles for American HIMARS systems, which should soon be in Ukraine. Strikes can also be carried out on Russian territory. What can be opposed to this?

On Friday, July 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Dmitry Rogozin from the post of Director General of Roscosmos. The new head of the state corporation was Yuri Borisov, who previously held the post of deputy prime minister in the Russian government, who was responsible for the military-industrial complex.

As planned, Anna Kikina will become the first cosmonaut in the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Her place in the crew of the Soyuz MS-22 will be taken by US astronaut Francisco Rubio

Georgia turned out to be the last country on the planet that allowed the operation of the Starlink satellite Internet from the American company SpaceX on its territory. SpaceNews writes about this.

The new CEO of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, met with the leadership of the state corporation. He was appointed to the position of head of the corporation on Friday. This is reported by TASS.

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.