Two years ago, the United States launched the X-37B experimental spacecraft into orbit. His flight continues to this day and raises a number of serious questions, and the project as a whole remains a cause for concern ...

In order to be able to destroy the enemy’s satellite systems with some guarantee, you must have at least 100 missiles specially designed to destroy satellites on the GSO on alert duty ...

At the last MAKS-2019 exhibition, the domestic industry showed a new large-scale model of a promising transport and energy module designed to perform special tasks in ...

Russian astronautics, promising projects and concepts of reusable launch vehicles. What of this will be realized, and what will remain only on paper? Projects of Roscosmos, private and ...

Work continues on the promising liquid rocket engine RD-171MV. The prototype engine is ready and will soon be tested; the layout was shown to the general public. All events within the new ...

Russia sent the first humanoid robotic complex to the ISS. A new era begins in the history of Russian cosmonautics, associated with the introduction of fundamentally new systems and products ....

It is planned to use the Vulcan launch vehicle as a launch vehicle. The main difference between the new Dream Chaser spacecraft from the Shuttle and the Soviet Buran will be folding wings ...

According to recent reports, the development of a project for a promising transport and energy module based on a nuclear power propulsion system has been completed in our country. In the future, such a product ...

The orbital observatory "Spektr-RG" went to plow the endless expanses of space. The Russian heavy carrier rocket Proton-M launched a unique telescope into space ...

In 1967-2019 produced by 145 launches of "Unions". For our country, the ships "Soyuz" are of great importance. This component is first Soviet, and then Russian manned cosmonautics ...

The greatest success in the study of Venus was achieved by the Soviet Union. The first spacecraft to Venus were sent in 1961 year, and a large-scale research program lasted until the middle of 1980-x ...

Missiles and spaceplanes can be returned to earth in various ways. An extremely interesting and original, but hopeless variant of the landing complex was developed and patented by the American ...

The PIO program, which Ronald Reagan talked about, was called Hollywood Star Wars. The Soviet Union was involved in another round of the arms race. In response, the USSR worked ...

China is building up its military potential in the space sphere, and this activity naturally arouses the concerns of third countries. The first concern is Washington, which is to ...

Russia celebrates 12 on April, the Day of Cosmonautics. As you know, the first person to fly into space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin ...

In the middle of the last century, the concept of a nuclear rocket engine for rocket and space systems was proposed. Leading powers have developed their versions of such devices. In our country, the result ...

New Delhi strengthens its position in the club of space superpowers. The Indian leadership announced the successful testing of anti-satellite missiles ...

Following the instructions of President Trump, the Pentagon forms cosmic forces. The US military has made part of the plans and is preparing for their implementation. What is known about future space forces ...

International arms limitation treaties are crumbling one after another. Is the inevitable militarization of space coming and who will be its instigator? What weapons can be placed in orbit and ...

Now there is no project more important for world astronomy. The new telescope "James Webb" can answer many questions related to the device of the universe ...

In Russia, a new project of a reusable spacecraft is being created that is capable of solving various problems of a scientific and commercial nature. Some necessary work has already been done, and in the beginning ...

Russia had and still has its own development of reusable rockets, about which much less is known than about the SpaceX projects. Why? Because our rockets are only drawings and beautiful pictures! ...

The new Tundra satellites were developed with the participation of the Kometa Central Research Institute (payload module) and the Energia rocket and space corporation (platform development) ...

Modern armies have a critical dependence on satellites for various purposes. Spacecraft in orbits become the priority target of the enemy. But it’s not so easy to disable them ...

The paradox of the SLS program is that the technical requirements for the launch vehicle and the Orion ship are presented, but the list of flight targets has not yet been compiled. The US Senate is torn between the Moon, Mars and ...

The development of one rocket within the framework of the SLS project is estimated at an amount in excess of 35 billion dollars. And the first manned flight to Mars is planned only in 2033. In American society, there is ...

On October 11, the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle was unable to send the Soyuz MS-10 space vehicle with two astronauts on board. According to the foreign press, the missile crash was a blow not only to ...

Space Launch System ("Space Launch System") - a US national project aimed at flying humans to the Moon and Mars. The Americans super program is designed to return their independence to ...

The exploration of outer space began in the fifties of the last century, but the theoretical basis for it was laid even earlier. One of the pioneers in this area was Yuri Kondratyuk, ...

The theme of spaceplanes has long been of interest to designers and potential operators, and significant successes have already been achieved. However, not all projects in this area led to the desired results, and ...

Three words on the next US project in space. Naturally, without Russia ...

Information from Bill Hertz: The Pentagon is studying the creation of space-based interceptor missiles and tracking spacecraft to counter Russian and Chinese threats ...

Outer space interests the military, which leads to the emergence of special technology. New satellites, in turn, attract the attention of specialists and the press. The National Interest Edition ...

A model of the Russian super-heavy space rocket will be shown at the Army-2018 forum in late August. The creators of the new rocket can take the Soviet rocket “Energy” as a basis ...

C7 Space Transportation Systems LLC (abbreviated S7 Space) is the first privately-owned company in Russia whose main activity is launching rockets and launching space objects into orbit ...

Echoes of the 1962 Caribbean crisis were heard throughout the world. The nuclear war was prevented, but the United States and the USSR did not stop work on creating means of destroying each other ...

LRV orbital bombers could have provided absolute US dominion in the world, but they remained an extremely courageous, expensive and impracticable project. Or is it not quite like that? ...

Is Russia going to catch up with Soviet technology? Yes. In the state quite seriously expect to compete with Ilona Mask. Roscosmos intends to create an ultralight rocket-space system ...

The last squeak of the American concept of air launch, the carrier plane Scaled Composites Model 351 Roc ("Bird of Ruh") from the end of 2017, began ground tests ...

The lunar exploration programs, which were simultaneously curtailed in the Soviet Union and the United States as early as the middle of the 1970, are again becoming popular and in demand ...

The automatic interplanetary stations of the E-1 "Luna" series are well known. But some information about the project remained closed. The Russian space industry has published the most interesting historical ...

One of the most ambitious Soviet-Russian projects in the field of space exploration is close to completion and is entering the stage of direct practical implementation. This is about...

For several years now, astronauts have been sent to the ISS only with the help of the Soyuz series ships. However, the situation may change in the future. Left without their own manned ships, ...

The US STS (Space Transportation System, "Space Transportation System") is better known worldwide as the Space Shuttle ("Space Shuttle"). This program ...

After the closure of the Space Transportation System / Space Shuttle program, the US space industry for a long time was left without reusable ships. However, several organizations at once ...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 20 December 2017 has decided on the future direction of its program called New Frontiers ....

The rapid development of private companies in the space industry leads to unexpected consequences. To assess the current situation and make a forecast for the foreseeable future, the online publication Ars Technica ...

The implementation of space programs is inconceivable without many auxiliary research projects, including those involving the construction of flying laboratories. In the early nineties of NASA ...

As part of the current development program, the Russian military spacecraft grouping is replenished with new products, and also receives new opportunities ...

At the seemingly ordinary event - the 68-th International Astronautical Congress, which took place in Australian Adelaide at the end of September, the first step was taken towards the beginning of the real development of Russia ...

September 8 1944 on London fell the first German long-range ballistic missile V-2 (from the German V-2 - Vergeltungswaffe-2, a weapon of retaliation) ....

I don’t know if anyone noticed or not, but we had another event like “bloody gebni” with mass executions of visitors. From visiting the site was denied to several readers who got up on ...