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The world's largest air show was held in China. The show began with aerobatics, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The J-16D electronic warfare aircraft, the WZ-7 high-altitude drone, is presented for the first time. The aerospace exhibition in Zhuhai is held every two years. A 3D model of the space station complex is presented. The air show runs from September 28 to October 3, the main theme is military and space technology.

Roscosmos first published the composition of the future Russian orbital station on the public procurement website on Thursday, September 23. According to the document, the state corporation has allocated funding for the development of requirements for it and its seven modules in the amount of 1.735 billion rubles.

As the Central Television of China reports, the device has been successfully launched into a given orbit

China on Monday launched the remote sensing satellite of the Jilin-1 HR-02D series. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

Two Express communication satellites, Express-AMU3 and Express - AMU7, are planned to be sent into orbit on Proton-M

The train that transported the Proton-M carrier rocket arrived at the Tyuratam station (a station near the Baikonur cosmodrome). This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

During the next launch of the New Shepard spacecraft, Chris Boshuizen, Glen Devries and two other unknown space tourists will be on board. According to some reports, among them is the actor William Shatner, known for the TV series Star Trek.

The Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has built a prototype of the CH-6 armed reconnaissance drone. According to Janes, the aircraft will be shown at the Zhuhai Air Show. The CH-6 is a medium-altitude vehicle capable of flying long distances at subsonic speeds.

The American private aerospace company Blue Origin announced a new manned suborbital flight of four tourists on a New Shepard rocket, it is planned for October 12, according to the company's website on Monday.

The state Corporation Roscosmos plans to create an operator to provide commercial experiments on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), follows from the data of the public procurement portal.

The state Corporation Roscosmos plans to create an operator to provide commercial experiments on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS).

Yan Novikov, General Director of the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, believes that the United States is working on technologies for creating reusable combat orbiters capable of delivering covert strikes from space.

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.

Its height decreased by 1.2 km

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was lowered in connection with the upcoming arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with a movie crew on October 5 and further undocking for sending the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to Earth. This is stated in a message on the Roscosmos website.

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 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 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.

Russian cosmonauts may set a record next year for the number of spacewalks. They will have to leave the International Space Station (ISS) nine times, according to the flight program available to RIA Novosti.

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 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 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.

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.