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Recently, many media outlets reported that scientists managed to grow plants in real lunar soil collected by the astronauts of the Apollo mission. However, it's too early to dream of a moon salad. A horticulturist from the University of Florida and the author of this experiment, Rob Ferl, lowered observers from heaven to Earth, showing how frail the first space plants turned out to be. The sprouts from the lunar soil turned out to be much smaller than their terrestrial counterparts and had purple pigmentation, indicating stress.

The supply of a wide range of Western weapons to Ukraine is not only aimed at, as the EU leadership puts it, "defeating Russia on the battlefield." Moreover, according to a number of signs, the combat effectiveness of both Stingers, Javelins, and Bayraktars turned out to be almost shameful. However, the very fact of the participation of these types of weapons in real battles is of great importance for the West. Why?

In the Chinese peer-reviewed scientific journal Modern Defense Technology, researcher Ren Yuanzhen from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications published an article on the "Starlink problem".

Roscosmos told how the Sphere satellite group will work under sanctions

The total amount of financing of the Russian multi-satellite grouping "Sphere" will amount to about 180 billion rubles, Roscosmos reported recently.

MAI told how plasma engines have increased the payload capacity of Russian missiles

Plasma engines were able to significantly increase the payload capacity of the Russian Soyuz and Proton rockets. Slow, but effective, they allow you to take much more cargo into high orbits. What will be the new fuel for such engines and whether they can be used for flights to the Moon, other planets and on the ISS, "Gazeta.Ru" said Vladimir Kim, Chief Researcher at the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics of the Moscow Aviation Institute.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that now there are more than 160 Russian satellites in orbit (including military ones). According to him, "this is not enough, there should be thousands." But will the Russian economy be able to pull the development, creation and launch of thousands of spacecraft? And will our allies in other countries help us to implement this idea?

On May 26, the National Industrial Summit "Industrial Policy in New Realities" was held in Moscow at the site of the Russia Today media group

The modern geopolitical map with new challenges and gaps between industrial and technological "continents" encourages Russia to restart the industrial arrangement of the economic space and build technological chains in its national interests.

The range of Sarmat's combat equipment has been expanded, including in terms of the number of combat units and types, including planning hypersonic units

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will carry hypersonic and cruise warheads of a large power class.

It can deliver a payload to anywhere in the world

The Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is the only missile that can fly around the entire globe and deliver a payload to anywhere in the world.

Russia and China are close to signing an intergovernmental agreement on the creation of a scientific base on the moon, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The National Directorate of Military Space Intelligence of the United States announced the conclusion of ten-year contracts with BlackSky, Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs to provide commercial satellite images to intelligence, military and federal civilian agencies of the United States. This is reported by SpaceNews.

The device was launched from Cape Canaveral in the USA, and it was launched into space by a Falcon 9 rocket. According to Nikol Pashinyan, preparations for this mission were conducted in secrecy.

The project of the second Chinese interplanetary station "Tianwen-2" has passed into the engineering design stage, and the device itself will be launched into space in 2025. It is expected that the station will be able to deliver soil to Earth from the Kamoalev Earth quasi-satellite, as well as study the active asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS, according to the website Space.com .

Rostec's website tells about the main space launch of the year – the launch of the Luna-25 spacecraft. This automatic station will be the first Russian lunar mission in the last half century.

NASA is confused: the Hubble telescope shows that "something strange" is happening to the universe

NASA scientists are confused by the data sent to them by the Hubble telescope. According to these data, "something strange is happening to our universe," writes the Daily Express.

How long space missions change the brain

Prolonged stay in space causes changes in the structure of the brain, writes Big Think. In a recent study, scientists were able to establish a link between this phenomenon and cases of visual impairment in astronauts.

The Voyager 1 space probe suddenly started sending NASA nonsense

Launched in 1977, Voyager became the farthest man-made object in space, but for some time now it has been sending gibberish to Earth, writes Gizmodo. NASA believes that the data obtained does not fit in with the true position of the ship.

The Starliner spacecraft docked to the ISS during a test flight

Boeing has completed a long series of failures related to the development of the Starliner ship. He was able to reach the ISS in unmanned mode, despite a number of emergency situations in flight and failures during previous attempts. Now, if the landing goes well, the first people will be able to go on it to the space station at the end of 2022.

Where is the militarization of space going

An analysis of the available indirect and direct signs of preparations for an arms race in outer space suggests that there is less and less time and opportunities for proactive diplomatic steps on the PARAC. Let's analyze this situation using the example of US military space preparations both at the political and doctrinal level and in the military-technical sphere.

As reported by the TASS news agency, on the morning of May 18, 2022, the Russian military satellite Kosmos-2555, which was launched on April 29 using the Angara-1 launch vehicle, descended from orbit and burned in the atmosphere.2". This follows from the data of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of the United States.