They said the assault left a Russian A-50 early warning and control aircraft seriously damaged, although Tuesday's satellite images showed no visible signs of damage to the aircraft. On Sunday, Belarusian opposition activists claimed a military air base outside Belarusia’s capital that hosts Russian warplanes came under attack by Belarusian guerrillas supporting Ukraine. Some reports alleged that an unidentified drone was spotted in the area, while the Defense Ministry said the skies around the city were closed as part of air defense drills. Petersburg, the country's second-largest city. On Tuesday, Russian authorities also briefly closed the airspace over St. Ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility for any of the attacks. Russian reports identified the drone that fell near Gubastovo as a UJ-22, a small Ukrainian-made reconnaissance drone that also can carry about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of explosives and has a range of autonomous flight of up to 800 kilometers (about 500 miles).
While it inflicted no damage, the drone appeared to target a major natural gas pumping facility and marked the closest strike yet to the Russian capital. Some Russian reports identified the aerial vehicle as an Israeli-made Aerostar drone.Īnother drone, reportedly a massive Soviet-built jet-powered Tu-141 Strizh, fell into a field in the neighboring region of Adygea, damaging a farm building.įinally, a drone crashed on the edge of a forest close to a gas compressor station near the village of Gubastovo, less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Moscow. On Tuesday, a drone also hit an oil refinery in the southern port of Tuapse in Russia's Krasnodar region, damaging some equipment but missing oil reservoirs. Late Monday, four small drones targeted the city of Belgorod, including one that reportedly flew into an apartment window.Īnother drone was downed early Tuesday over the neighboring Bryansk region in western Russia, according to local officials. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.WHAT AREAS DID THE LATEST DRONE ATTACKS TARGET? The AP is solely responsible for all content.Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. _ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. "But having established a working time system for the moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations.”
“This will be quite a challenge" with each day lasting as long as 29.5 Earth days, Hufenbach said in a statement. NASA is shooting for its first flight to the moon with astronauts in more than a half-century in 2024, with a lunar landing as early as 2025.
Perhaps most importantly, lunar time will have to be practical for astronauts there, noted the space agency's Bernhard Hufenbach. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than in lunar orbit. Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. There are also technical issues to consider. The international team looking into lunar time is debating whether a single organization should set and maintain time on the moon, according to the European Space Agency. That helps to split the time difference between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and the other partnering space programs in Russia, Japan and Europe. While the space station doesn't have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks. NASA had to grapple with the time question while designing and building the International Space Station, fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece. European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there. "A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this," Giordano said in a statement.įor now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the urgent need to establish “a common lunar reference time," said the space agency's Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer. This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. – With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.
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