The US Navy military base in Maryland near Washington is closed due to a bomb threat. This is stated in a message from the US military posted on Twitter on Wednesday, October 20.

The likelihood of a war between mainland China and Taiwan within the next year is very small, Chen Mingtong, director of the island's national security bureau, said on Wednesday.

Russian fighter crews identified aerial targets as two supersonic B-1B strategic bombers of the US Air Force accompanied by two KC-135 tanker aircraft

Two Russian Su-30 fighters escorted two B-1B bombers and two KC-135 tanker aircraft of the US Air Force over the Black Sea. This was reported on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The scenarios of NATO exercises near the western border of the Union State are based on armed confrontation with the Russian Federation, he said.

The United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) continues to centralize the management of enterprises belonging to the corporation.

Novikombank, the main bank of the Rostec State Corporation, has set a lending limit of 1.5 billion rubles to the Helicopter Service Company (JSC VSK), which provides modernization and maintenance of Russian helicopter equipment.

Two American B-1B Lancer strategic bombers, which took off from Fairford Air Base in the UK, flew in the Black Sea area, the US Air Force Command in Europe and Africa reported.

B-1B Lancer Bombers of the Air Force (Air Force) The United States, during a recent mission in the Black Sea, practiced striking the positions of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia located in the Crimea, says the Ukrainian information and consulting agency Defense Express.

According to Indian media, another batch of Rafale fighters manufactured by Dassault Aviation arrived at the Jamnagar Air base of the Indian Air Force, having flown from Bordeaux-Merignac air base in France.

The Malaysian Air Force plans to receive new FLIT/LCA (Fighter Lead-in Trainer/Light Combat Aircraft) training/light combat aircraft within the next three years.

Israeli startup Air has presented the concept of a personal aircraft vertical takeoff and landing Air One for personal use. With a cruising speed of 161 kilometers per hour, it will be able to fly up to 177 kilometers. The company is already testing a prototype and is going to certify it in 2023.

The enterprise does not cope with the function of the general contractor of construction works at the cosmodrome, the interlocutor of TASS noted

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin "gave a dressing down" to the Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI) Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov due to dissatisfaction with the progress of construction work at the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The head of the State Corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday, October 19, ordered the change of the general contractor for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, as well as the creation of a subordinate construction department, which will become the new general contractor.

The detention of Marat Arustamov is the result of an audit by the internal audit service of the corporation, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The criminal case in which the Deputy Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos) was detained Marat Arustamov, initiated, among other things, as a result of an audit of the Roscosmos internal audit service. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The control of the Soyuz MS spacecraft was successfully tested alone during the kinoekipazh flight. This was told by the commander of the cosmonaut squad, Hero of Russia Oleg Kononenko on Wednesday, October 20.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin recalled that the Luna-26 orbiter will be launched on a Soyuz-2 rocket

The Russian automatic station Luna-27 will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on an Angara carrier rocket. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the next issue of the General Line program.

The joint NASA and Space X mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which was scheduled to launch on October 30, has been postponed to October 31. This is stated on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 19.

American private aerospace companies Boeing and SpaceX will seek to increase the number of flights to the ISS under contracts with NASA, said John Vollmer, head of Boeing's commercial manned flight program.

Boeing Corporation's promising CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, if technical problems are eliminated, can be launched into the second test flight (Orbital Flight Test-2 - OFT-2) in unmanned mode in the first half of 2022, John Vollmer, vice president and manager of the company's manned flight program, said on Tuesday during a NASA teleconference.

The carrier should launch on October 21

The Republic of Korea is completing preparations for the launch of the first Nuri launch vehicle of its own design and production. According to the plan, it should launch on October 21 from the Naro cosmodrome in Kohin-gun County of Jeolla-Namdo Province, the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies reported on Wednesday.