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A separate military version of Starlink is called Starshield and is already being supplied to the US Armed Forces The US Army has already begun deploying SpaceX’s Starshield satellite communications system, which is a military version of Starlink. And the first four satellite communication terminals were given to the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade, which […]

October 6, 2023

Amazon is ready to send the first Internet satellites into space. As part of Project Kuiper, the company will launch two vehicles. Amazon intends to launch the Protoflight mission today, on October 6. The company intends to launch KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 Internet satellites into orbit. These are prototypes of future spacecraft. They are designed to […]

October 6, 2023

The Project Stardust editor can automatically identify and manipulate individual objects in images (such as removing unnecessary objects from a photo and adding AI-generated content). In the demo, the tool automatically recognizes objects in the photo, such as a yellow suitcase and its shadow, and highlights them like the Lasso tool in Photoshop. They can […]

October 6, 2023

On Thursday, October 5, a Turkish cargo ship struck a mine in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania, but sustained minor damage. This was reported by Reuters. It is noted that this happened at 12:20 Kyiv time near the mouth of the Danube, 11 nautical miles north of the town of Sulina, near […]

October 6, 2023

On the night of November 5, 29 Shahed-136s were launched in the direction of Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense units managed to shoot down 24 barrage munitions. To repel the attack, the Neva air defense system (also known as the S-125) was used. Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video of the complex’s combat operation on Telegram. In […]

October 6, 2023

Satellite Internet services are likely to become the segment that will drive human development in the coming years. But the convenience comes at a significant environmental cost. Already, satellite Internet is ten times more environmentally damaging than terrestrial alternatives, and in the next five years it will be almost a hundred times worse for the […]

October 5, 2023

What are the advantages of this artillery system, first of all, mentioned by the soldiers of the Ukrainian Defense Forces In September 2023, we received the first feedback from our military on how the 155-millimeter self-propelled artillery system 2C22 “Bogdan” of domestic production performs in intense combat. Our defenders noted its maneuverability, high level of […]

October 5, 2023

Ukrainian military designers have repurposed the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system, which will now function as a long-range surface-to-surface weapon. These modified missiles will be used to defeat Russian troops in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Originally developed in the 1960s by the Soviet design bureau Diamant, the S-200 was designed for operations against American strategic […]

October 5, 2023

Japan and the UNDP donated two powerful autotransformers to Ukraine, which will be installed at one of Ukrenergo’s substations to meet the needs of 500,000 households. consumers This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy. The head of the department, Herman Galushchenko, noted that the repair and manufacture of autotransformers requires […]

October 5, 2023