Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC), said that in the manufacture of Soyuz-5 launch vehicles, specialists will use a new durable and lightweight alloy.

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, painted to resemble Khokhloma, put the Progress MS-18 cargo ship into near-Earth orbit. The broadcast is conducted on the website of the state corporation "Roscosmos".

In 2020, 17 launches were carried out from four spaceports

Roscosmos has increased the number of launches of space rockets in 2021 compared to the previous year. This is evidenced by the calculations of TASS.

The transaction price will be 2.79 billion rubles

The Board of Directors of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia during the meeting approved the conclusion of a deal with Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) for the manufacture of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft, according to the information disclosure website.

Flights will become available to ordinary people, Dmitry Loskutov noted to the company

Prices for commercial space flights will decrease in the 2030s due to increasing competition in the industry. This was stated on Wednesday in an interview with the Emirati agency VAM by the CEO of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on the sidelines of the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.

The experiment on carrying out a surgical operation on board the International Space Station (ISS) was carried out by the Russian crew, including the crew of the film "The Challenge". This is reported by Interfax with reference to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

An experiment to put a robot into orbit is planned to be carried out in 2024

The anthropomorphic robot "Teledroid" will be able to work both inside and outside the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported to TASS by a representative of the Cosmonaut Training Center on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.

This satellite can be launched in 2022

Kursk Southwestern State University will take part in the work on the first space satellite of Nicaragua, which can be launched in 2022. This was reported on Wednesday by the Nicaraguan government portal El 19 Digital with reference to Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who is now in the republic.

So the head of Tesla and SpaceX responded to the publication that in the event of the introduction of the "tax for billionaires" promoted by the US Democrats, the payments of Elon Musk and the head of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos would be enough to finance a mission to land a man on Mars.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" made its fourteenth flight, thus confirming that the problem with the skew machine has been eliminated. During the flight, the propellers were unscrewed more than before — this means that the drone is able to fly at a lower atmospheric density, NASA tweeted.

The launch of the Rocket 3.2 launch vehicle with an experimental vehicle in the interests of the US Space Forces has been postponed to November 5, the developer company Astra Space has announced.

Large-scale exercises of five air defense formations with a large number of combat launches from the S-300V4, Buk-M3 and Tor-M complexes were held in the Astrakhan region. This was announced on Thursday, October 28, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Units of the Southern Military District (SE) will receive new portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS) "Willow". As sources in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia, a fundamental decision on the complete rearmament of the Southern Military District with new air defense systems has already been made. The main deliveries will fall on the current and next years.

The new MTU-4 anti-aircraft gun was shown in Serbia. The development of the Military Technical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia can use anti-aircraft missiles of the Igla and Strela-2MA complexes. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to completely re-equip the units of the Southern Military District (SE) with new portable air defense missile systems "Willow".

The Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) will hit more than 100 km. On October 27, the press service of the State Corporation "Ukroboronprom" on its official YouTube channel published a video of the test of the MLRS "Olkha-M" ("Vilkha-M").

Russia has nuclear weapons capable of killing billions of people, says the American publication 19FortyFive.

The Indian Armed Forces conducted a test launch of an Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of over 5 thousand km. This is reported by The Times of India newspaper with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the country. 

Russia is not ready to accept that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is being transformed into an instrument of political pressure, and will make every effort to normalize its work, said Andrei Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office in Geneva, speaking at the First Committee of the General Assembly (GA).

A PTH-130 wheeled self-propelled artillery unit is being tested in Vietnam. Externally, this combat vehicle is very similar to the self-propelled guns from the Jupiter series, which was produced in Cuba and was first demonstrated in the middle of the first decade of the XXI century.