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.

The first manned test flight of the CST-100 Starliner Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) spacecraft to the International Space Station may take place at the end of 2022, said John Vollmer, head of the Boeing Corporation Commercial manned flight program.

NASA has chosen the winner among the finalists of the next Explorers program competition in the category of small research vehicles. It was the COSI space gamma-ray telescope, which will be launched into near-Earth orbit in 2025 and will study galactic gamma-ray sources, according to the NASA website.

The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) has no plans to deploy weapons in space. This was announced on Wednesday, October 20, by the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg.

The acoustic reconnaissance module "Ataka-Rustle", created by specialists of the subsidiary holding "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) to detect drones by sound, has successfully passed factory acceptance tests, the state corporation told reporters on Wednesday.

The delivery of equipment was carried out by military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces

The units of the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) involved in the joint exercises "Slavic Shield - 2021" in Serbia have been returned to Russian territory. This was reported on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The United States will commission a second missile defense (ABM) base in Europe, the creation of which is being completed in northern Poland near the village of Redzikovo, 165 km from the Russian border, in the coming months, according to data from the US Defense Defense Agency.

The United States is capable of sending up to six thousand high-precision subsonic Tomahawk cruise missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads to the target in just one salvo, writes TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin. The author called this circumstance causing an impenetrable headache for Russia.

North Korea has successfully tested a new ballistic missile by launching it from a submarine under water. On the presented frames, you can examine the tests in detail.

The DPRK confirmed that on October 19 it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Yonhap news agency reports, citing the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA).

At the current level of development of hypersonic weapons, the United States has every chance to lose in a possible fight with Russia and China. After years of warnings from military experts, the Pentagon is now spending over a billion dollars annually to catch up.