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The political revenge against Musk by a number of Republicans and the replacement of the future head of NASA have created an unprecedented threat to the agency's scientific projects. Now there are plans to curtail the financing of nuclear engines for space.

According to estimates by an international team of researchers, the lunar craters contain platinum and other precious metals worth more than a trillion dollars. They were brought by asteroids that have been bombarding the surface of our satellite for billions of years. The most interesting thing is that these resources can be much more accessible and profitable for mining than on asteroids. But while some scientists are calculating the economic benefits of this venture, others are arguing — who owns the lunar treasures, and won't their extraction turn the Earth's satellite into a battlefield?

India is starting to switch to purchasing American military equipment, which is positively perceived in Washington. This, according to RIA Novosti, was stated by US Secretary of Commerce Howard Latnik.

A burial orbit is used to remove expired satellites

Technologies for cleaning space from debris are being developed by many scientific groups, but so far humanity does not have effective ways to get rid of thousands of inactive vehicles and their debris. At the same time, over the past decade, the number of operating satellites in low-Earth orbit has increased almost 10 times, Polina Levkina, a researcher at the Solar System Research Department at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS.

June 2, 2025 marked the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Kura test site in Kamchatka. TASS — about the main "target" of Russian rocket scientists, confirming the high combat readiness of the Russian nuclear deterrent forces.

[b]According to the adviser to the Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Science and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan, this is possible due to the project of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Baiterek

The Baikonur Cosmodrome, celebrating its 70th anniversary on June 2, has prospects for commercial launches due to the Baiterek project of Kazakhstan and Russia and the creation of an ultralight launch vehicle complex.

The relevant professional development program was developed by the Department of Legal Support of the State Corporation in cooperation with the Rostec Academy

The Rostec Department of Legal Support, together with the Rostec Academy (part of Rostec State Corporation), has developed a professional development program on intellectual property rights management (RID). More than 90 specialists from Rostec, Rosatom, and Roscosmos have already been trained.

Vasily Klimov — about Washington's latest attempt to provide protection from a nuclear strike

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has led to drastic and decisive changes in many aspects of domestic and international politics: gender, foreign trade, and the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. Trump has managed to bring back to the White House the energetic start that has been so lacking in American politics in recent years. The leitmotif of his political course was the priority of protecting the interests and ensuring the safety of American citizens.

In a lengthy speech on May 30, 2025, Elon Musk did not limit himself to repeating what was already known, but also outlined a number of new points about the Starship program and the specifics of the first few waves of flights to Mars.

On May 27, Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation Sergey Nikolaevich Tresvyatsky died after a serious and prolonged illness. He conducted tests of the aerodynamics and durability of the MiG-21, MiG-23 and Yak-38 aircraft, tests of Su-24 power plants, reliability and combat capabilities of the Su-25, and control systems of the Su-27. The MiG-21 and MiG-29 were the first to take off from a mobile ski jump.

Germany will allocate funds to Ukraine to create long–range weapons for attacks on Russian territory - this is the main outcome of the meeting between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Vladimir Zelensky. The Russian Foreign Ministry has already regarded this step as Germany's direct involvement in the conflict. What are the consequences of this escalation from Berlin?

Some SpaceX Starlink spacecraft prematurely leave orbit not because of technical problems, but because of solar activity. This was told by scientists from NASA after analyzing the data array. In their opinion, our star is already having a negative impact on the satellite constellation and may disrupt space communications in the future.

The Russian lunar program will include seven missions, and funding for the program will begin this year, said Gennady Krasnikov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

For the third time in a row, the tests of the second modification of Starship were unsuccessful. Moreover, unlike the previous two cases, this time even the first stage could not work properly. It seems that SpaceX was unable to correctly identify the causes of the two previous partial failures, so the measures taken to fix the technical problems did not yield results.

Military observer Leonkov: the United States will multiply the satellite grouping

One of Donald Trump's most ambitious projects is the creation of a fundamentally new missile defense system, the Golden Dome, which will be deployed on land, sea and in space, and will be put into operation before the end of his presidential term. What is known about the large—scale program worth 175 billion dollars is in the RIA Novosti article.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology noted that it is still difficult to comment on the plans for the deployment of the space component of missile defense

The space component of the American Golden Dome missile defense system (ABM) would pose a serious threat to the satellites of Russia, China and other countries that Washington may consider as potential adversaries.

Bertalan Farkas said that he intends to organize such a meeting at the end of July

Bertalan Farkas, the first and so far the only Hungarian cosmonaut, plans to gather in Budapest all his colleagues from other countries who participated in the Soviet Intercosmos program in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with a TASS correspondent, he said that he intends to organize such a meeting at the end of July.

A senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that NATO's neophyte countries are staging provocations in the Baltic Sea

NATO's neophyte countries have embarked on blocking Russia's trade and economic cooperation with partners in the Baltic Sea, staging provocations in the waters and threatening the Russian civil fleet. This opinion was expressed by Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the RANEPA Institute of Law and National Security and a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with TASS.

Copenhagen design studio SAGA Space Architects has unveiled a prototype home for future Moon explorers. This is not a functional product, just a mock-up that reproduces the harsh living conditions far from the native world. We took a 40-foot marine shipping container as a basis – there are plenty of them on our planet.

Today marks 38 years since the first flight test of the last Soviet space giant, the superheavy launch vehicle Energia. It was launched on May 15, 1987. The technically successful project has reached a fully operational product that has flawlessly completed two test flights. But he never reached flight operation for reasons beyond his control. And the rocket launch went flawlessly then, although not without its peculiarities — and one of the participants in these tests was the author of Naked Science.