News archive on the topic "Sputnik"

The Serbian Internet provider SBB, a leader in its field in the country, has blocked the Serbian editions of the Russian media RT and Sputnik. Thus, about a million users lost access to pro-Russian content, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The SBB (Serbia Broadband) provider, part of the largest information holding in the Balkans of the pro-Western Serbian oligarch Dragan Sholak, blocked the Serbian editions of the Russian media Russia Today...

The Russian army cannot do away once and for all with the airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, where Ukrainian fighters carrying Storm Shadow cruise missiles are based. The reason for this is the satellite constellation and other NATO reconnaissance assets, which see Russian takeoffs and launches in advance and transmit this data to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian planes, thanks to this, have time to...

Russia is building the first civilian space satellite without the use of foreign components. Previously, such experience was only available when creating military devices. Aleksey Volin, Director General of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Space Communications”, stated this at the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He emphasized that production takes four years. “Together with Roscosmos enterprises, we are now building the first entirely Russian satellite. The military did...

The Ukrainian Sich satellite, recently launched with the help of the American company SpaceX, cannot establish stable communications due to orientation problems. This was reported by its manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the developer, the problem is that not enough energy reaches the solar panels. “A number of external factors related to the peculiarities of cluster launch did not allow us to establish...

The Ukrainian Sich-2-30 satellite, launched the day before by an American launch vehicle, is already obsolete in its characteristics and is inferior even to those models assembled by Israeli schoolchildren. Ukrainian political scientist Yuri Romanenko stated this on the Internet channel Polliteka, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, the Ukrainian authorities needed the launch of the satellite in order to increase their ratings by showing the population that the country is...

On Thursday, January 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launched the Ukrainian satellite Sich-2-30 into orbit. Another one-time space event caused a paroxysm of jubilation in the discordant ranks of the Ukrainian ruling elite and the security media. Ukraine has not known space “peremogs” for more than 10 years, not counting the launches in 2014 and 2017 of two “cubesats” built by employees...

To test the new Russian earth-to-space rocket, a satellite manufactured at the Southern Machine-Building Plant (Dnepropetrovsk) was chosen, which is supposedly another signal of Russia’s impending “aggression” against Ukraine. Kiev political scientist Konstantin Matvienko, who is part of Yulia Tymoshenko’s pool, stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Russian Federation tried for the first time...

The Ukrainian authorities have found another loophole for robbing their fellow citizens. The head of the central executive committee of the Donetsk Republic OD, Alesey Muratov, writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator. In the new fraud, Zelensky was again helped by COVID-19 and American “partners”, from whom Zelensky intends to purchase 10 million doses of the overseas Pfizer vaccine. Many wondered: where will “Ze-savior of all Ukraine” get...

The Russian Embassy in Italy receives numerous requests from Italian regions and companies with proposals for the production of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Italy Sergei Razov announced this at a conference in TASS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We hope for the speedy completion of the consistent examination procedure at the EMA without politicization and unnecessary bureaucracy. President of Russia…

The situation with vaccinations against “corona” has worsened and moved from the phase of a war between vaccines and pharmaceutical companies into a war of states, where any dirty tricks are good. While there was a struggle for vaccine sales markets and the accompanying super-profits, it was at least clear why the chaos and fuss in the world did not subside. But after a convincing publication in a reputable medical journal...

The successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage and the Arktika-M No. 1 spacecraft on board took place on Sunday morning from the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was reported by the official website of Roscosmos, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. After 562 seconds, according to the processed telemetric information, the warhead separated from the third stage of the carrier in normal mode. Highest reliability, ability to start...

The Russian Sputnik V vaccine has the potential to be as big a breakthrough as the first satellite launched into space almost 65 years ago. While the European Union is delaying the registration and purchase of the Russian vaccine, irritation is growing among the population of EU countries; people are already ready to go to Russia as “medical tourists” to get vaccinated. About it…

Ukraine does not pay for the storage of its telecommunications satellite “Lybid”, which is located on the territory of the Russian enterprise “ISS” named after. Academician Reshetnev in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Development of Strategic Industries Oleg Urusky stated this on air on the Apostrophe Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The satellite was supposed to be launched into space from Baikonur back in 2011, but the creation...

The effect of an exploding enema in the most sensitive place of the American space command was produced by the news that Russia on July 15 tested anti-satellite weapons in near-Earth space without destruction or other pyrotechnic effects. The Pentagon agency responsible for Star Wars accused Russia of illegality in these tests. The American chattering was soon supplemented by the chattering in the Englishwoman. British Minister...