News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Richard Branson's company has pushed the start of commercial suborbital flights to the fourth quarter of next year. This is due to the refinement of equipment and new tests.

Virgin Galactic, controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has postponed commercial suborbital flights of the Unity spacecraft for the last quarter of 2022, according to the company's website.

Two corvettes of projects 20380 and 20386 under construction have been renamed, TASS reports, citing sources in the shipbuilding industry. The interlocutors said that the corvette "Zealous" of project 20380 became known as "Mercury", and the corvette "Mercury" of project 20386 was returned to the former name "Daring".

The relocation of the main office of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) to St. Petersburg has been completed, small technical details remain, the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov told Interfax on Friday.

The reason for the death of the American F-22 fighter was the mistakes made when washing the aircraft - they affected the operation of the sensors. Air Force Times managed to get acquainted with the results of a closed investigation conducted by the US Air Force bypassing the usual procedure.

The head of Roscosmos lives in one of three guest houses-dormitories, where the leadership of leading rocket and space companies is located

Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin conducted a "tour" of the cottage in which he lives and the workplace for the period of business trips to the Vostochny cosmodrome.

The Ivan Papanin-type Arctic transport refrigerator will be able to carry missile weapons. To install the Kalibr-K mobile complex on a Russian ship, standard cargo containers will be required. This is reported by TASS with reference to the curator of the project, a member of the board of directors of the company "Yugreftransflot" Viktor Kot.

Specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) promptly eliminated the loss of orientation of the International Space Station (ISS), which occurred during the testing of the engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, the rocket and Space Corporation Energia reported.

The participants of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress, held in Hamburg (Germany), got acquainted with the unique experience of Russia in ensuring transport security, the press service of GLONASS JSC reports.

The engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, on which the cinema crew is due to return to Earth on October 17, did not turn off as expected during the test, but stopped working when they reached the fuel consumption limit. This was reported on Friday, October 15, at the American Mission Control Center (MCC), the negotiations are broadcast by NASA.

At the 10th International Exhibition of Armaments and Military Equipment "Partner-2021" held in Belgrade, a Serbian version of the modernization of the Strela-10M anti-aircraft missile system of the military air defense was presented.

In the NATO armies, during combat training, the use of mock-ups of Russian military equipment acting as an enemy continues. For example, the British ground forces use fake BMP-3.

The rocket will be launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with Galileo spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for December 1, 2021. This was reported on Friday in Roscosmos.

The Changzheng-2F carrier rocket with the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft launched to the Chinese orbital station with three cosmonauts. This is on Friday, October 15, follows from the broadcast of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), carried out by China Central Television.

The restoration of control over the orientation of the station took about 30 minutes, the department noted

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is cooperating with Roscosmos to establish the root causes of the incident that led to a change in the orientation of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. This was reported to TASS by a NASA representative.

The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-13 with three cosmonauts docked with the main compartment of the PRC orbital station. This was reported on Saturday, October 16, by CGTN TV channel.

Finnish woodworking company UPM announced the postponement of the launch into space of the world's first satellite made of wood WISA Woodsat for the first half of 2022. This was reported on Friday, October 15, on the company's website.

The Taikonauts entered the Tianhe module about three hours after the successful docking

Three Chinese cosmonauts from the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft entered the main module of the PRC orbital station on Saturday and began the first operations for its maintenance and operation. This was reported by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of China.

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was woken up by a siren on the night of October 16. The sound signal was given due to a malfunction in the control system of the Russian Zvezda module. This follows from the data of the negotiations broadcast by NASA on YouTube.

In Russia, the production of weapons of the Nagant system has resumed. On October 15, the TASS news agency reported that the private Russian company "Sestroretsk Arms Factory" launched the production of a carbine based on the legendary revolver.