Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s plan to bomb Mars to make it suitable for human life is a front to deploy nuclear weapons in space, Russia’s space chief said Wednesday, The Moscow Times reported.
The SpaceX founder and CEO have occasionally floated his controversial plan to terraform the Red Planet by setting off...
Russian internet giant Yandex has seen a surge in use of its contactless payments service at petrol stations during the coronavirus pandemic, sparking fears among some station owners of a plunge in business at their shops, Reuters reported.
The number of Russians using Yandex.Fuel has almost doubled in the past...
Over 20 Uran-6 robotic mine-clearing vehicles will arrive for Russia’s engineering troops under the defense procurement plan in 2020, the Defense Ministry of Russia reported on Monday, TASS reports.
"By late 2020, the engineering troops are set to receive 22 Uran-6 upgraded multi-purpose robotic mine-clearing vehicles," the ministry said in...
Russia’s state arms seller Rosoboronexport (part of the state hi-tech corporation Rostec) has started promoting on international arms markets the 59N6-TE mobile radar capable of detecting hypersonic targets, the company’s press office reported on Thursday, TASS reported.
"Today Rosoboronexport is bringing to the market the latest radar station capable of...
Michael Gold, the Acting Associate Administrator for NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations, told the reporters that the media reports that the US is not willing to include Russia into the draft agreement on Moon exploration were incorrect.
"I think it’s unfortunate that there were a lot of media...
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday that Igor Ozar who was appointed as acting Head of Russia’s Energia Space Rocked Corporation on Friday will focus on developing the concept of a new orbital station.
"I am confident that he will be able to cope with the tasks faced by...
Roscosmos is ready for negotiations with NASA on moon exploration projects and invited the leadership of the American organization to discuss the projects, but has not yet received a response, Kommersant reported.
At the same time, cooperation on lunar projects could “become a serious factor for the interaction of the...
Founder and CEO of the Russian antivirus software provider Kaspersky Lab Yevgeny Kaspersky does not recommend using Zoom for business negotiations due to security problems, he said in an interview with TASS for special project Top Business Officials.
"As for Zoom, we had significant security objections from the outset. First,...
An old rocket that was used in the past launches broke down on May 8. This was confirmed by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos.
The Fregat-SB upper stage rocket was used to deliver Spektr-R, the Russian scientific satellite to orbit nine years ago.
The space agency is still investigating the situation. For...
Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messenger Telegram is announcing closure of the TON blockchain project, TASS reported.
"We are announcing the discontinuation of our blockchain project," he wrote in the Telegram.
Any project based on TON or using its name will not be related to the Telegram, Durov added.
The...
