12 March 2013 of the year in the Federation Council held a round table on the theme "On the development of measures to ensure planetary security against space risks and threats." A report to the senators made ...
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite of Earth into space, thus opening a new era in the history of mankind - the era of space exploration. Over the years that have passed since the 50 years ...
The super-heavy carrier rocket N-1 was nicknamed "Tsar Rocket" for its large dimensions (starting weight of almost 2500 tons, height - 110 meters), as well as the goals set during work on it. The rocket should ...
The probe floats in an icy void. Three years have passed since its launch at Baikonur, and a long road stretched a billion kilometers behind. Safely crossed the asteroid belt, fragile devices ...
A handful of soil, which was picked up on the crest of the Camelot lunar crater, slipped off the usual scoop into a special teflon bag and went with the Apollo 17 team to Earth. In that...
The Federal Target Program (FTP) to counter the cosmic threat may receive a start in life. Russian specialists from the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Roscosmos and TsNIIMASH created a project ...
But NASA astronauts are at risk of getting stuck on Earth forever. Due to financial difficulties, a difficult situation has developed around the “flagship program” of the American Space Agency ....
For many thousands of years, man gazed into the starry sky and asked himself the same question - are we alone in the Universe? Over time, the technology possessed by mankind ...
The meteor shower, which passed over the February Urals 15, showed how vulnerable humanity and defenseless were before the space threat. A meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk, for a happy ...
It seems that now we can observe events that are in some way reminiscent of what happened in the fifties and sixties of the last century. More than clearly there has been a new space race, in ...
The leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan agreed on the further joint mutually beneficial use of the Baikonur cosmodrome - this statement was made on the results of the visit of the Kazakh President Nursultan ...
Aircraft "flying wing", rocket planes, aircraft on electric propulsion, when it comes to planes of the future, manufacturers usually do not skimp on a variety of exotic designs ....
At the end of 2013, the Russian Defense Ministry is going to test a modernized version of the Krona anti-satellite complex, the Izvestia newspaper reports, citing its own sources ...