GLONASS-TM, a company launched in early 2018, intends to deploy an Internet-of-Things network across Russia as part as a “government assignment.” The network will be used to monitor, collect and analyze data in a variety of fields. It will help “control the state of the country’s transportation infrastructure, security systems, meteorological and ecological monitoring and …
C4ADS, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to data-driven analysis of conflict and security issues worldwide, has released a report to “expose GPS spoofing in Russia and Syria.” Used for a variety of civil and military purposes, GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are vulnerable, remind the authors of the report: “By attacking positioning, …
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The Russian government has adopted a resolution requiring all satellite traffic in Russia (including telephone and Internet communications) to transmit through ground stations. The new requirements take effect in six months. According to business daily RBC, the resolution is based on findings by the Communications Ministry that operators might create a national security threat by offering “uncontrolled use …
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The global AI investment fever has hit Eastern Europe with two funds, Larnabel VC and VP Capital, making their first local and international deals under a joint $100 million investment program. Larnabel VC is the venture arm of the Gutseriev family, one of the richest in Russia. VP Capital is the investment vehicle of Belarussian businessman Viktor Prokopenya. Any project types are potentially eligible. “We …
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A Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets. S7 Group, the owner of Russia’s S7 Airlines, agreed to buy the floating rocket platform Sea Launch from a group of investors and aims to restore its operations after a …
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A 3D printer for use in space is the end goal of a joint project between two Russian companies – Sputnix and Anisoprint – and Moscow Polytechnic University. The device will be able to print construction elements of microsatellites using composite materials while in orbit, its creators say. The project combines the experience of Anisoprint in the …
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk is known for being a bit eccentric. Last year, he blew up the internet when he told a Bloomberg reporter that he would like to die on Mars, but that his family “fears Russia will assassinate me [first].” Contemplating the prospects for a heated competition between Roscosmos and private US aerospace …
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Researchers at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia have “printed out” a fully-functional small satellite on a 3D printer. Christened ‘Tomsk-TPU-120,’ the spacecraft will soon be taken to Baikonur, the main Russian launch center in the territory of neighboring Kazakhstan. A cargo rocket will then take it to the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit. …
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Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn with its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said Alexei Belyakov, head of Skolkovo Foundation’s space and telecommunications technologies …
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Russia’s development of its Glonass global navigation system is nearing completion and it is now undergoing final tests at the Defense Ministry, the Izvestia newspaper reported Monday. “I don’t want to skip ahead, but I can say that we are doing our best to get the job done. We hope that after the tests the …
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Astro Digital, a startup created by Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold, won second place in the startup competition at Slush, which is a major event in northern Europe for innovators and developers interested in attracting international investors. “I’ve always been interested in the space industry and wanted to apply space technology to everyday life,” Kotenko-Lengold, a graduate from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and …
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Dauria Aerospace, a Russian space technology company, plans to develop and launch 10 satellites to monitor life in some of the largest cities in the world, primarily those located on a new Silk Road. Chinese investment fund Cybernaut will spend $70 million on the project as part of the Urban Observer project to conduct daily …
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