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The infantry Division of the South Korean Army and the Hanwha Defense company have begun testing the Intelligent UGV reconnaissance ground robot with a six-by-six wheel formula. According to Aju Daily, the military will check how the car functions in unmanned mode and with remote control.

Russian experts spoke about the technical characteristics of the IRKUT ultralight launch vehicle and the postponement of its first launch to 2024. The rocket will be produced in two versions, one of which will have a returnable first stage with a rotary wing. Depending on the version, the payload mass will be from 398 to 584 kilograms, according to an article published in the journal Space Engineering and Technology, which drew the attention of RIA Novosti.

The American company Pratt & Whitney will print a TJ-150 gas turbine engine on a 3D printer, which is equipped with small cruise missiles. According to FlightGlobal, the developers want to reduce the number of power plant parts from 400 to about six. As a result, the engine should become half cheaper.

On the instructions of the President of Russia, the budget of the state corporation Roscosmos for the next three years will be reduced by 16% or 150 billion rubles, which, in particular, is due to its failure to fulfill 30 of the 83 programs scheduled for 2020.

In Israel, they began to simulate life on Mars: researchers deployed a base in the Ramon crater in the Negev Desert. The experiment was organized by the Austrian Space Forum together with the Israeli Space Agency. 200 scientific studies will be conducted in 20 days, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

The design of highly elliptical and small navigation satellites of the GLONASS system is beginning in Russia, Nikolay Testoyedov, CEO of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The analysis of images from the Perseverance rover carried out by researchers from the USA and France revealed the remains of the delta of an ancient river that flowed into the lake, the bottom of which is now the Jezero crater. In addition, scientists have found evidence of catastrophic floods at a late stage of the lake's existence. The scientists' article was published in the journal Science.

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 51 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit in mid-October, according to data from the specialized website Spaceflight Now.

The Chinese manned ship Shenzhou-13 is scheduled to launch on October 15 to the newly created orbital space station of the People's Republic of China, according to the data of the American specialized website Next Space Flight.

Tests of rocket engines of the Voronezh Design Bureau (KB) "Himavtomatiki" will be suspended until the end of October 2021. This was announced by the head of ROSCOSMOS Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter.

The creation of new GLONASS-K2 satellites costs ROSCOSMOS twice as much as the GLONASS-K spacecraft of the previous generation, Nikolay Testoyedov, CEO of Information Satellite Systems (ISS), told RIA Novosti, calling it an absolutely natural process.

Ukraine has high technologies that allow, through the American Artemis program, to have claims to access to lunar resources, the statement of the head of the country's State Space Agency (SCAU), Vladimir Taftai, reports RKB-Ukraine.

Ukraine plans to create a light space rocket designed to be launched from a floating platform located in the Atlantic or Indian Ocean, the statement of the head of the country's State Space Agency (SCAU) Vladimir Taftai reports to RKB-Ukraine.

The advantage of the new Russian ultralight carrier rocket "Irkut" for space purposes is that it is easier and more economical to use for launching light-class satellites into orbit. Such an explanation on Saturday, October 9, was given in an interview with Izvestia by a military expert, director of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (CAMTO) Igor Korotchenko.

At the end of 2022, American astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) not on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, but on SpaceX Crew Dragon, Spaceflight Now reports.

The Agency for External Labor Migration of the country clarified that, according to the applications of Russian departments and companies, a total of 5 thousand workers are planned to be sent to the construction sites of Vostochny

Agency for External Labor Migration (AUTM) Uzbekistan, with the participation of specialized Russian companies, has already sent 1,466 Uzbek citizens to the Russian Federation, who will take part in the construction of infrastructure facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Saturday by the press secretary of the AUTM Ortikhuzha Norov.

The launch of the Japanese Epsilon light launch vehicle, which has already been canceled twice, is planned to be carried out at the end of October, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reported.

Ultralight launch vehicles will allow the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation to save significant funds when launching light satellites. Retired colonel, military observer Viktor Litovkin told Izvestia about this on October 9.

The US Army is invincible for five reasons, writes 19FortyFive. The American publication claims that the United States Army has "one of the deadliest arsenals in the world."

A cryogenic production site will be upgraded at the site of the Test and Refueling Complex of the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant (kRasmash) in the village of Podgorny, according to ROSCOSMOS, which includes the enterprise.