The Skif spacecraft are designed to provide broadband Internet access

The launch of the Skif spacecraft and the Marathon satellite constellation as part of the Sphere program, which allows creating a full-fledged broadband Internet system in Russia, will contribute to the prevention of man-made and environmental disasters, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.

The participants of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress, held in Hamburg (Germany), got acquainted with the unique experience of Russia in ensuring transport security, the press service of GLONASS JSC reports.

The rocket will be launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with Galileo spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for December 1, 2021. This was reported on Friday in Roscosmos.

Announcing the recent launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage of OneWeb satellites, Arianespace executive Director Stefan Israel "remembered" the contribution of the Russian side to the mission only after he was "congratulated" by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, RIA Novosti writes.

At the same time, the PRC does not exclude that such interaction between the two countries is theoretically quite feasible

The Chinese orbital station does not yet plan to exchange its telemetry data (flight parameters) with the Russian space communication centers. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Friday by the deputy head of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Lin Xiqiang.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, considered the work of the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle and the launch complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to be excellent. He expressed this opinion in an interview with journalists on Thursday, October 14, at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

The restoration of control over the orientation of the station took about 30 minutes, the department noted

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is cooperating with Roscosmos to establish the root causes of the incident that led to a change in the orientation of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. This was reported to TASS by a NASA representative.

The engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, on which the cinema crew is due to return to Earth on October 17, did not turn off as expected during the test, but stopped working when they reached the fuel consumption limit. This was reported on Friday, October 15, at the American Mission Control Center (MCC), the negotiations are broadcast by NASA.

Specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) promptly eliminated the loss of orientation of the International Space Station (ISS), which occurred during the testing of the engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, the rocket and Space Corporation Energia reported.

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was woken up by a siren on the night of October 16. The sound signal was given due to a malfunction in the control system of the Russian Zvezda module. This follows from the data of the negotiations broadcast by NASA on YouTube.

The head of Roscosmos lives in one of three guest houses-dormitories, where the leadership of leading rocket and space companies is located

Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin conducted a "tour" of the cottage in which he lives and the workplace for the period of business trips to the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Roscosmos will place special emphasis on preventing threats related to unmanned aerial vehicles

The robotic security platform "Marker" has been tested at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. This is a step towards the introduction of automated security control at a secure facility that does not depend on the human factor, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.

Zhong Hang - Zhi (ZHZ) Science and Technology Ltd. demonstrated an improved version of the TD220 vertical takeoff and landing UAV at the Airshow China 2021 exhibition held recently in Zhuhai.

American pilots will learn air battles with "an almost equal opponent." October 14, portal aero-mag.com He reported that the US Air Force has signed a contract with Exosonic for the construction of supersonic drones.

On September 28, a representative of Mitsubishi Corporation sent a letter to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in which Mitsubishi confirms the absence of any plans to restart the Mitsubishi SpaceJet regional aircraft program. The text of the FAA and Mitsubishi correspondence is posted on the page of official documents of the US government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Washington had offered to supply Turkey with F-16 fighter jets in exchange for its earlier investments in the F-35 program, from which Ankara was excluded several years ago, Western media reported.

The reason for the death of the American F-22 fighter was the mistakes made when washing the aircraft - they affected the operation of the sensors. Air Force Times managed to get acquainted with the results of a closed investigation conducted by the US Air Force bypassing the usual procedure.

The Government Commission on Legislative Activity has considered an initiative that actually brings down pilots and flight attendants suspected of extremism from the sky to the ground.

As Vladimir Gruzdev, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, explained, it is proposed to supplement the Air Code with provisions according to which it will be prohibited to accept citizens included in the list of persons in respect of whom there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism.

A Russian fighter jet took off to escort an American bomber over the Sea of Japan, according to the National Defense Control Center.

The pilots performed combat maneuvers, including U-turns, climbing in an ascending spiral with a decrease in flight speed and subsequent designation of the target attack, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

Joint Russian-Serbian crews of MiG-29 fighter jets have practiced intercepting low-flying drones in Serbia. This was reported on Friday by the Russian Defense Ministry.