The American company Stratolaunch has defended the Talon-A hypersonic glider project and completed the initial assembly of its prototype glider. Next year, she plans to test it with a hypersonic flight.

The Japanese company Honda will develop a hybrid vertical take-off and landing aircraft for flights between cities. According to TechCrunch, it plans flight tests of its demonstration model in 2025, after which it will decide about mass production.

Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, revealed the future operation of the Proton-M heavy launch vehicle after 2025. His words are transmitted by RIA Novosti.

The launch of the sOyuz MS-19 spacecraft is scheduled for October 5

Roscosmos has not received an official response to the invitation to attend the launch of the sOyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the sOyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, which is scheduled for October 5, from entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. This was reported to TASS in the state corporation.

Masten Space Systems company presented the results of work on the project for the rapid creation of landing sites on the Moon using the exhaust of a rocket engine and aluminum oxide particles. Specialists have developed a two-level system for introducing particles into the engine nozzle and experimentally confirmed the viability of the idea in practice using a bench engine, according to the company's website.

The probes of the BepiColombo mission, flying to Mercury, successfully performed the first gravitational maneuver near their target, flying at a minimum distance of 199 kilometers from the planet. During the flyby, the spacecraft received a number of images of the surface of Mercury and other scientific data, according to the ESA website.

NASA and SpaceX have announced the date of sending the Crew Dragon spacecraft with several astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the European Space Research Administration (ESA).

He delivered about 2.9 tons of cargo to Earth from the ISS

The Dragon cargo ship of the American company SpaceX landed on water in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida on Thursday evening. This was reported on Twitter by SpaceX.

After many years of attempts to create new spacesuits to go beyond the International Space Station (ISS) and work on the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program, NASA has started looking for developers of space equipment among private companies, writes ArsTechnica.

The US authorities are checking Blue Origin for safety. The US Federal Aviation Administration received complaints about the quality of the missiles produced by the company. Some Blue Origin employees said that the management paid more attention to flight safety to the speed of development and assembly of missiles, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

The reasons for this decision are not reported

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft, scheduled for Friday. This is stated in the JAXA message.

In 2021, tests of the Prometheus perimeter security system, including remotely controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun, will be completed at the facilities of the Ministry of Defense, Igor Afanasyev, Director General of the research and production association eLektromashina, told TASS.

The variant of the Pantsir complex for military air defense (air defense) and the fighter of drones "Derivation-air defense" will soon be put into service, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov.

The Russian military will receive a portable anti-aircraft missile system of the new generation "METKA". As the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, told the kRasnaya Zvezda newspaper, the MANPADS has a missile with a homing head resistant to all types of optical interference.

More than 30 sets of MANPADS "wIllow" entered service with a motorized rifle unit of the ZVO, stationed in the Leningrad region.

The Joe Biden administration is in an extremely difficult position due to the fact that the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, is determined to purchase weapons from Russia.

North Korea has tested a new anti-aircraft missile, the state news Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) reported on October 1. It is noted that the tests took place on September 30.

On Thursday, a new anti-aircraft missile was tested at a test site in North Korea. In the development of the DPRK, they saw similarities with the Israeli missile defense system "David's Sling". This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Former Chief of the General Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Retired Russian Colonel-General Viktor Yesin doubted the presence of hypersonic missiles in the DPRK. In his opinion, such developments do not correspond to the industrial level of North Korea. This is reported by Interfax.

Russia, in response to the tests of American hypersonic weapons, promptly reported on the completion of flight design tests of the "blind" Zircon missile, according to the Ukrainian information and consulting company Defense Express.