"East" instead of "Baikonur"?
In the Svobodnensky District of the Amur Region, the construction of one of the most important objects of the space industry, the Vostochny cosmodrome, continues. The week ended the stage of summarizing the building ...
In the US, thinking about the space drone
The US agency DARPA has published information about the start of development of a new reusable space hypersonic drone. About this, in particular, wrote the resource Stars and ...
In the United States experience a unique tracked carrier
Specialists from the US space agency NASA began running trials of a unique tracked vehicle - the Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), designed to transport ...
Space Innovations from Shvabe Holding
The Krasnogorsk plant named after S. Zverev, which is part of the Shvabe optical holding company (as part of the state corporation Russian Technologies), won the competition, which was held by Roscosmos. Competition...
Exploration of the moon is still difficult
2013 year was marked by the launch of the first Chinese lunar rover, called “Yuytu” (“Jade hare”), to the natural satellite of Earth. Yuytu became the first spacecraft to land on ...
The world's first experiment on trapping space debris with a net is being prepared.
Is space debris so dangerous? Where to start cleaning the orbits? What legal problems need to be solved for this? What projects are offered? The correspondent of "RG" talks about this with ...
The confrontation of the United States and China can go into outer space
China is actively developing its armed forces and makes other countries nervous. Not long ago, the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral S. Locklear, recognized that the era of domination ...
RAS and Russian universities will be attracted to protection against space threats
EMERCOM of Russia, together with domestic and American scientists, is going to consider the possibility of creating a system that will protect the public and socially significant infrastructure objects from ...
Is space will only be the American dream?
A few days ago, a brief message flashed in the news of domestic media about a planned launch into a near-earth orbit of a privately-built spacecraft in the United States. Not surprising,...
Project Longshot. Reach for the stars
The cold glow of the stars is especially beautiful in the winter sky. At this time, the brightest stars and constellations are visible: Orion, the Pleiades, the Greater Dog with dazzling Sirius ... A quarter of a century ago, seven ...
Even US aircraft carriers cannot escape from Russian missiles
Recently, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta declared the truism: "Any fifth-grader knows that the US carrier strike forces are not able to destroy any of the existing powers in the world." ...
Russia is preparing to send three spacecraft to the moon
Russia is preparing to return to the big space race by launching three new spacecraft designed to explore the moon. The first phase of this space program is currently ...
Nuclear tug development continues
In the course of MAKS –2013, cooperation of domestic firms from Roskosmos and Rosatom structures presented an updated transport and energy module (TEM) layout with the space nuclear energy-driven engine ...
Not such times are now to close the "Angara"
Our main, most advanced project in the field of space carriers - Angara - turns out to be a failure ?! In vain, wrong to be closed? So you would have thought ...
Space Scouts. American spy satellites
In 1955-1956, spy satellites began to be actively developed in the USSR and the USA. In the USA it was a series of Korona devices, and in the USSR it was a series of Zenit devices. Space scouts ...
Spaceport world. Part 3
Another Asian giants actively developing their missile technology is India. First of all, it is connected with the improvement of the nuclear missile potential in the confrontation with China and ...
Space intelligence.Soviet and Russian spy satellites
In 1955-1956, spy satellites began to be actively developed in the USSR and the USA. In the USA it was a series of Korona devices, and in the USSR it was a series of Zenit devices. Space scouts ...
The main events of 2013 of the year in astronautics
The outgoing 2013 was a year for world cosmonautics remembered by the launches of the Chinese lunar rover, the Indian Martian probe and the first satellite of South Korea. In addition, a landmark event was the first flight to ...
Spaceport world. Part 2
China is currently one of the five leading space powers in the world. Successful space exploration is largely predetermined by the level of development of satellite launch vehicles, and ...
“Buran” and “Shuttle”: such different twins
When you look at the photographs of the Burana and Shuttle winged spaceships, you might get the impression that they are quite identical. At least there are fundamental differences ...
Spaceport world. Part 1
To launch spacecraft into space, in addition to the launch pad, a complex of facilities is needed where pre-launch activities are carried out: the final assembly and docking of the launch vehicle and ...
The world returns to race in space exploration
Today, the development of space technologies, as well as the very high dependence of the economy on space (of some states), leads to an increase in opposition outside our planet. Just such a point ...
"Proton-M" waiting for serious competition with the American rocket "Falcon 9"
8 December 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome successfully launched the Proton-M launch vehicle, which launched an English communications satellite into space, one of the three vehicles with which ...
American drone X-37B has been in orbit for over a year.
The mysterious American spacecraft (we are talking about the X-37B space-based unmanned spacecraft) has been in Earth orbit for a year now, performing various tasks related throughout ...