Angara - the world's first rocket modular design
November 1 leadership GKNPTs them. Khrunichev reported that the new Angara A5 heavy launch vehicle - the world's first rocket, made according to the modular principle (formed as a designer), has passed ...
Mockups do not fly into space
Americans for spaceflight have something besides a trampoline. And where is our new generation of ship? Five years ago, at the International Air Show in Zhukovsky, visitors saw a mock Russian ...
X-37B secret cosmic drones have found a home in the Kennedy Space Center
In mid-October, NASA officially confirmed the fact that the two former hangar for space shuttles, located on the territory of the Kennedy Space Center, will be used in the framework of the secret military ...
Prospects for the development of Russian cosmonautics
Domestic astronauts should be trained not to work on the ISS, but for expeditions to the Moon and Mars. So says the deputy head of the Cosmonautics Training Center (CPC) for scientific work, Boris ...
Announced the start of construction of the Unified Space System
In the near future, the creation of the Unified Space System (CEN), designed to track the launch of ballistic missiles and protect Russia from a nuclear missile strike, will begin. Part of the existing ...
For the landing of the Russian-European rover picked up four possible sites
The surface area of the Red Planet is approximately 145 million square kilometers. Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it is for scientists to determine where to plant the next one ...
News of the project "Angara"
July 9 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome passed the first test launch of the new Russian launch vehicle Angara-1.2PP. Start performed the calculation of the aerospace defense forces. The rocket successfully executed ...
I can see everything from above, and you know
Currently, the topic of satellite images has become very relevant. This topic attracts the attention of ordinary people. A surge of interest followed after a terrible catastrophe that happened in the sky above ...
India conquers Mars
India was among the space superpowers. Indian scientists managed to solve a very difficult task - they brought their own satellite to the Martian orbit. As a result, India became the first country in ...
GLONASS is dependent on foreign components
The global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) began to be developed back in the USSR on the order of the country's defense ministry. The satellites of this system are put into orbit from October 12 1982 of the year ....
Lin Industries Company Creates New Light Class Booster
Several foreign private companies are currently working on projects for launch vehicles and spacecraft. It is expected that "private owners" due to similar projects in the future will be able ...
Developed a recovery plan for the Center. Khrunichev
In early August, the leadership of the State Space Research and Production Center (GKNPTs) named after V.I. M.V. Khrunichev. The purpose of appointing new leaders was to rebuild ...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 7 part
We said above that Angara aims to at least “squeeze out” three classes of launch vehicles. This is already impressive. Moreover, the conquest of at least some niche in the orbital space is already “golden ...”
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 6 part
On July 9, 2014, a significant event took place, which will be a landmark not only for the Fatherland, but also for the entire global space. From the Plesetsk cosmodrome for the first time in the world ...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 5 part
In the previous chapter, we very thoroughly and with illustrative examples dismantled the basic postulates of the great Russian design school, which are excellent in space design. But...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 4 part
Now, dear reader, we are forced to temporarily move away from the main theme of our narrative. We will not advance a bit in the understanding of rocket technology until we reflect on a number of issues. Can...
In Russia, create a super-heavy rocket with an eye on the moon and Mars
In Russia, they returned to the idea of creating a rocket carrier of a super heavy class, with the help of which our country will be able to fly to the Moon and Mars. However, currently still missing ...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 3 part
Now it becomes clear why for many years an absolute monopoly on the delivery of astronauts to the ISS was given to the Soyuz spacecraft - the legendary royal seven. It is difficult to find epithets ...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 2 part
I must say that the Zenit launch vehicle was more fortunate in this regard. Yes, the Energia-Buran space program was closed, but we have Zenit, which was ...
Angara: Triumph or Oblivion. 1 part
Today, the economic collapse in Ukraine is spoken a lot and often, and somehow in this gigantic stream of necessary and unnecessary information, the rocket and space industry of this state is lost. It is from ...
US wants to find a replacement for the Soyuz spacecraft and Russian engines
The American aerospace agency NASA is going to abandon the use of Russian manned transport spacecraft "Soyuz-TMA" in favor of similar vehicles of its own production ...
In the United States will be funded program to create a space drone XS-1
Hypersonic flight experimental US space drone XS-1 (Experimental Spaceplane 1) is scheduled for the end of 2017 or the beginning of 2018 year. DARPA - Agency of Advanced ...
The history of the future: how humanity makes its way into space
The space history of mankind will lose more and more details every decade. The more success we will achieve, the less significant the achievements will be very important ...
"Roskosmos" is not threatened by sanctions, but by private American companies
The West has long been discussing various options for toughening sanctions against Russia because of the crisis in Ukraine. So far, only the United States has gone for the introduction of sanctions, which are not limited to ...