NASA has selected an asteroid for the landing of astronauts
The US space agency NASA has chosen an asteroid, with which American astronauts will be sent to a meeting after about 10 years. Last Thursday, the agency reported that the selected ...
United Launch Alliance announces the start of work on a new rocket engine
The situation with the supply of Russian rocket engines to US enterprises received further continuation. The United Launch Alliance (ULA), realizing the risks associated with the latest court ruling ...
NASA presented a project of a starship capable of moving faster than the speed of light
Having opened its way to the stars, humanity almost immediately began to dream of interstellar and interplanetary flights. However, time passes, and the man never flew beyond the Moon. To overcome ...
Russia will create a super heavy rocket methane fuel
In Russia, work is underway to develop new methane engines, which are designed for super-heavy launch vehicles. Oleg Ostapenko, who holds the post of head, told journalists about this ...
Great hike
China is ready to conquer space in all directions Large space "divorce" took place. Nothing means the fact that the partners are still continuing to visit and “sweep” the common dwelling - the ISS. Already...
In the future, Russia will need the Moon and Mars
Russia is not going to extend the operation of the International Space Station (ISS), which American colleagues strongly suggest. On this occasion, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin ...
Space shuttles are again in demand
Lunar and Martian programs of Russia need super-heavy means of delivery. Today the penetration into deep space, declared in the Russian and American promising space ...
Dust off Moonlight. The first astronauts landing on the moon are planned in 2030 year.
Russia thought about the moon seriously and for a long time. At least, the development of our closest celestial neighbor, or rather a "companion" with its subsequent colonization is named among the three ...
NPO Energomash is developing a new rocket engine
A few days ago it became known that the Samara TsSKB Progress proposed a new engine for promising super-heavy class carrier rockets, using liquefied gas as fuel ...
TsSKB Progress is proposing to create a rocket engine operating on LNG
In the program of development of astronautics, new items may appear, in accordance with which the industry will create a new launch vehicle and engine for it. According to Russian funds ...
Soviet program "probe" and the first commercial flyby of the moon
Rush through the icy mist and meet the sunrise over the Ocean of Storms. See with your own eyes the reverse side of the moon. To see the narrow sickle of the Earth, soaring in velvet blackness over the crater Lorenz. Walk on ...
Space trampoline for the United States. Tribute to Dmitry Rogozin
The cessation of flights under the Space Shuttle program at one moment made Russia a monopolist in the field of manned cosmonautics. From now on, every state who expresses a desire to send their ...
How to repel an attack from space
After a fairly long and painful period of recession, military construction in our country is growing more and more confidently. Today we can talk not only about overcoming the negative ...
State and private space: Russia's competitive opportunities
In the past ten years, we are literally witnessing a revolution in private space exploration. It began in the United States, but today this revolution is changing the approaches to the use and development ...
From on-board equipment to space shaver
KRET enterprises took an active part in space exploration. Products developed by Concern's specialists can be found on all spacecraft and stations, from Vostok-1 to the ISS. On...
And Mars will bloom apple trees
On the eve of the Day of Cosmonautics, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the domestic space program, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, outlined a new concept of space exploration and exploration ....
Cosmos is waiting for new heroes
Silence of endless spaces - and only 20 years for a cosmic dream. The "space race" that unfolded between the USSR and the USA was a cornerstone in the development of civilization. Start to ...
"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 ...