By Andrew Roth, Published by The Guardian, 10 August 2023 The Luna-25 mission will try to land near the south pole of the moon, seeking signs of water or its components A Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on what Russia hopes will be its
By Anna Prince and Peter W. Singer, Published by Defense One, 17 July 2023 Caracas’ participation in the International Lunar Research Station is more than merely symbolic. Venezuela recently declared that it intends to cooperate with China and Russia on the International Lunar Research Station, making it the first country to formally do
By Joseph Menn, Published by The Washington Post, 30 June 2023 A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start
File Image: The Russian Iskander-M SRBM – Wikimedia Commons By Parth Satam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 2 June 2023 Two waves of missile strikes at Ukrainian air bases by Russia in a period of 24 hours have nullified Ukraine’s claimed success in being able to intercept them. On the
By Parth Satam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 24 April 2023 Russia’s Tobol electronic warfare (EW) system targeted the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal to break the “synchronization” of the Starlink satellite internet service with its ground terminals, according to a Ukrainian journalist. Leaked documents from the Pentagon had recently
A graphical representation of Russia’s nuclear-powered space tug, Zeus By Parth Satam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 20 April 2023 Russian space agency Roscosmos is considering using the Zevs (Zeus) nuclear tug for cleaning up orbits flooded with space debris. The agency’s CEO, Yuri Borisov, made the announcement at the
Military Expert Decodes The Claims By Tanmay Kadam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 16 April 2023 According to a recent report by the state-owned media outlet Ria Novosti, Russia claimed to have developed an electronic warfare (EW) system that can jam satellites in geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000
By Parth Satam, Published by the Eurasian Times, 8 April 2023 The US aims to overwhelm Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 500 communications, data transfer, and missile tracking satellites. The first batch of 10 satellites was launched on April 2. SDA director Derek M.
