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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of his own space company Privateer Space. "A private space company, Privateer Space, unlike any other, is being created," Wozniak wrote on Twitter.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launched into orbit on Tuesday with 51 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX said.

Within the framework of the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" in the Baltic Sea, the crews of the corvettes "Steregushchy", "Stoyky" and the patrol ship "Yaroslav the Wise" successfully fulfilled the tasks of repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a conditional enemy and inflicted an artillery strike on sea and coastal targets, the press service of the Western Military District reports.

The Russian research vessel "Yantar", engaged in the study of the World Ocean, scared the British. It appeared near the territorial waters of Great Britain.

A video of the combat use of the Russian reconnaissance and strike drone "Outpost-R"appeared on the Network. The device performed bombing on a ground target.

The main universal nuclear icebreaker "Arctic" of the project 22220, after undergoing dock repairs, performed an inter-factory transition from Kronstadt to the Baltic Plant (part of the USC).

For the first time, the change of positions of motorized rifle units in conducting maneuverable defense was provided by reconnaissance and fire support robots from the Uran-9 robotic complex during the practical actions of troops (forces) of the main stage of the SSU "West-2021" at the Mulino training ground.

The solemn launching of the serial small rocket ship of the project 21631 "Grad "will take place on September 17 at the JSC" Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky " in the Republic of Tatarstan.

With the available funding, it is impossible to increase the volume of research in low-Earth orbit, said Alexander Derechin, Deputy General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, speaking at the international Gagarin Conference, TASS reports.

For the first time, Russia has used the Pacer and Outpost reconnaissance and strike drones, which are part of the Lastochka complex. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were used to support the advancing troops during the Zapad-2021 exercises, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian military in Kamchatka conducted an exercise to eliminate the ships of a conditional enemy in the Pacific Ocean with missiles of the Bal coastal complex, the Pacific Fleet reported on Tuesday.

Virgin Galactic, a company controlled by British billionaire Richard Branson, has faced new problems, SpaceNews reports.

The Terminator tank support combat vehicles were used during combat training operations at the Zapad-2021 strategic exercises of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the BMPT operated as part of mobile tactical groups during the transition to offensive actions of the motorized rifle division and the tank brigade of the coalition group.

A video is being distributed demonstrating the use of the tactical unmanned aerial vehicle "Outpost-R "in the strike version during the joint strategic exercises of the Russian Armed Forces" West-2021 " on September 11, 2021.

The Philippine Air Force Command has completed the repair of six previously unused helicopters, which allowed expanding the capabilities for transporting troops and cargo.

The servicemen of the Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet (SF) have worked out a set of tasks for the defense of the territory of Russia in the conditions of the Far North and the Arctic, the press service of the SF reported on Tuesday.

The ceremony was attended by the deputy commander of the VVO association, Major General Igor Timofeev and Deputy Chairman of the Government of Buryatia on security issues Pyotr Mordovskoy

A new tank training ground has been opened in the village of Sosnovy Bor in Buryatia. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the press service of the republican government.

Russian combat robots will protect strategic objects. Autonomy and advanced optical devices will allow monitoring at any time of the day. This is reported by Izvestia, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM performed combat launches of air-to-air missiles at the Telemb training ground in Buryatia.