One of the potential space tourists doubted the reliability of Elon Musk's ship and preferred to fly into space on the Russian Soyuz . This is reported by RIA Novosti.

According to the company Space Adventures, a space tourist who is the first among non-professional participants of the flight to go into outer space will pay several million dollars more.

According to the representative of the company Sergey Kostenko, this is a difficult issue that will require further development of the ship

The company Space Adventures, which promotes space tourism on the Russian "Soyuz", plans to offer customers a flyby of the Moon. This was announced to journalists on Sunday by the head of the company's representative office in Russia, Sergey Kostenko.

The production of the first satellite of the new Russian space group "Skif" for providing broadband Internet access has begun. This is stated on September 24 on the channel of the satellite-building enterprise "Information satellite Systems" named after Reshetnev " in YouTube.

The launch of the first satellite of the Skif system will allow Russia to consolidate its orbital position. Thus, the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, appreciated the importance of launching the Skif-D spacecraft on Twitter.

The Skif spacecraft are being developed within the framework of the Sphere program

The launch of the Skif spacecraft will allow creating a full-fledged broadband Internet access system in Russia in the future. This was announced on Friday on Twitter by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

A batch of 36 British OneWeb communication satellites has arrived in Russia, Roscosmos announced on Saturday. "A new batch of 36 OneWeb spacecraft has been delivered to Ignatievo Airport (Blagoveshchensk) by An-124-100 aircraft," the state corporation said, noting that they will be transported to the Vostochny cosmodrome during the day.

The Starlink global Internet system can be used as a replacement for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), according to the Ohio State University, citing a study aimed at publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

The Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission, which involves the second test attempt of the Starliner spacecraft without a crew to reach the International Space Station (ISS), is unlikely to take place this year, reports SpaceNews a statement by Katie Leaders, who recently headed the NASA Space Operations Directorate.

The launch of a spacecraft with the first fully commercial crew of Axiom Space as part of the Axiom-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for February 21, 2022, Kathy Leaders, head of the manned flight program of the National Aeronautics and Space Research Agency (NASA), said on Twitter on Friday.

The dismissed director of flight tests of Virgin Galactic, Mark Stuckey, revealed the company's problems. According to him, the pilot's error, and not a strong wind, led to the deviation from the original course of the Unity suborbital spacecraft, on board of which was the British billionaire Richard Branson, writes Parabolic Arc.

The government organization NASA, following a number of other American federal structures, officially entrusted its documents and communication systems to Box. Cloud technologies and storage will be used to process almost all the agency's working documentation. This was done primarily to ensure reliable remote work of 18,000 employees scattered throughout the United States.

In Russia, they told about the work on the means of space attack in the United States. The United States is practicing the use of orbiters that can deliver covert strikes from space. This was stated by the general director of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, Yan Novikov, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

According to the modernization plan, first of all, noise immunity will be strengthened at the stations, as well as the energy supply system will be improved

Three radar stations of the Voronezh series, which are part of the missile attack warning System (SPRN), are planned to be upgraded by 2028. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the interstate joint-stock corporation (IAC) "Vimpel".

An exercise was held in the anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Southern Military District stationed in the Krasnodar Territory, during which the calculations of the S-300V4 air defense systems successfully prevented a massive attack by a simulated enemy on one of our army facilities. The press service of the Southern Military District reported that the military carried out electronic launches, destroying targets in the sky that denote cruise missiles.

In September, Russian troops conducted live-fire exercises. As part of the maneuvers at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region, calculations of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) were involved. In the United States, the tests of the Russian system were evaluated. The National Interest magazine published the opinion of military expert Peter Suchiu about the Russian S-400 complex.

Despite the constant pressure from the United States on the issue of acquiring Russian S-400 air defense systems, the deal with Russia will not be revised. This was stated by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to RIA Novosti.

The United States and NATO are upset over the export of Russian S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems. They even imposed economic sanctions against countries only for the purchase of air defense systems. Despite this, several states, including India, are showing interest in the S-400.

The command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) accused Russia that its reconnaissance planes flew into the zone reserved by Ukraine for conducting live firing. This became known on Friday, September 24.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress on Thursday approved a separate bill to provide $1 billion in aid to Israel for the purchase of missiles necessary for the Iron Dome missile defense system, The Hill reports.