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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday urged Russia’s aerospace industry to step up efforts to develop booster rocket engines and expand the country’s role in global space technology.
Speaking in the southern city of Samara after touring the Kuznetsov aircraft engine design bureau, Putin said renewing production capacity for launch vehicle engines was vital both to meet domestic needs and to compete internationally.
“It is important to consistently renew production capacity in terms of engines for booster rockets,” Russian news agencies quoted him as saying.
“And in doing so, we must not only meet our own current and future needs but also move actively on world markets and be successful competitors.”
Putin highlighted Russia’s progress in developing new engines for the energy sector despite Western sanctions imposed after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, calling it proof of the industry’s resilience.
“In conditions of restrictions from sanctions, we succeeded in a short period of time in developing a series of innovative engines for energy,” he said, noting their use in gas transport systems.
He linked the issue to Russia’s wider energy ambitions, particularly the planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline under discussion with China. Putin described the project as beneficial for both Moscow and Beijing, saying it had gained urgency as Russia seeks to redirect gas exports away from Europe.
Turning to aviation, the president pointed to the development of the PD-26 engine, which he said would modernise military transport aircraft and enable construction of a new generation of wide-bodied passenger planes.
Putin’s visit to Samara capped a week in which he also travelled to China and Vladivostok, using public appearances to underline Russia’s technological and industrial ambitions amidst sanctions and geopolitical isolation.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
NASA officials on Tuesday said the agency's first crewed flight in its Artemis programme - a trip around the moon and back - is on track for launch in April and could potentially be moved up to February 2026.
In a discovery that pushes the limits of our cosmic imagination, astronomers have revealed a colossal bridge of gas and stars stretching between galaxies, accompanied by the longest tail ever observed, an intergalactic structure on a scale that rewrites what we know about the Universe.
The GLOBSEC Initiative on the Future of Cyberspace Cooperation has released a new research paper examining NATO’s potential use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity.
A nationwide survey in Kazakhstan shows a split opinion on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, with 40.5% viewing it positively and 37.4% seeing it as a threat to learning quality, according to the Institute of Public Policy reported in The Astana Times.
Scientists and guests gathered at Boston University in Massachusetts on Thursday (18 September) for the 35th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, which honours bizarre scientific discoveries.
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