In 2015, Russia will launch a Luna-Glob-1 research probe.
"Luna-Glob-1" is an orbital probe, which is one of the projects of the modern Russian space program. This project is implemented NPO them. Lavochkin. Projects "Luna-Glob" and "Luna Resource" ...
Anti-satellite weapons - space killers
In modern times, not only elements of the civilian infrastructure of the most developed countries are associated with satellite orbital groupings, but also a substantial part of the military infrastructure. More...
Americans are ready to organize commercial flights to the moon
The moon is the only natural satellite of our planet and the second brightest object in the earth’s sky after the Sun. At the same time, the Moon is the 5 of the largest natural satellite of the planets in our ...
America will deploy a space surveillance station in Australia
Washington is going to build a powerful space observation station in Australia. Already, many experts believe that the station will monitor not only satellites and space ...
NASA will take seriously the moon
NASA is going to build a space base on the back of a natural Earth satellite. This was officially announced the press service of the agency. The fate of this project largely depended on the outcome ...
Mystery of the fourth planet
Mars is located on the border of the so-called "zone of life" - the climatic conditions on the planet are much tougher than those on Earth, but still acceptable for organic life forms. In the summer at the equator at noon ...
Deep space reveals its secrets
Researchers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a long time lost their quiet rest. Excited by discoveries, they slept in fragments, and when they woke up, they again hurried to the Flight Control Center ...
NASA is considering the option of building a space station behind the moon
After almost 40 years of working with technologies that allow space manned spacecraft to be output no further than near-earth orbit, the US space agency NASA, apparently ...
Into deep space on a Z-engine
Half a century ago, even before the beginning of the space age, scientists from leading countries concluded that there are no serious prospects for existing types of rocket engines. Power density of liquid and ...
New direction of space colonization
A new direction of practical space exploration was proposed by the inventor “Nikolay Agapov”. Unlike well-known promising concepts, such as the extraction of helium-3 on the Moon or space tourism, ...
Moon epic in Russian and American
In early October of this year, the world celebrated the 55 anniversary of the launch of the first Soviet artificial Earth satellite, marking the beginning of the space age. October 4 Director of the Institute of Space ...
Roscosmos announced the study of the satellite of Jupiter and the monitoring of the asteroid
“Roscosmos” shared its grandiose plans with journalists. Representatives of this organization reported that by the year 2022 they are going to launch a spacecraft in a relatively distant ...
Unidentified Flying American Object X-37B
American experts today are actively working on the project of the unmanned shuttle X-37B. It is reported that at the moment the shuttle is preparing for the third mission (OTV-3). This mission will have to ...
Nuclear Hyper Speed Asteroid Interception Apparatus - HAIV
The second phase is the development by the HAIV architecture specialists with the capabilities of the NASA project and other organizations. 100 thousand dollars (grant) has been allocated for its implementation. It's one...
Earth - Apophis: dangerous convergence
Astronomers all over the world do not stop observing the flight of Apophis, an asteroid, which after a while will approach a very small distance to the Earth. Some years ago...
Is Russia losing space?
Recently, the situation around Roscosmos resembles a cheap tragicomedy, in which the main roles are played by the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Dmitry ...
Space landing
"The planet Venus is surrounded by a noble airy atmosphere, such (if only not more), which is poured around our globe of the earth" ... in 1761, M.V. Lomonosov discovered a halo around the planet's disk and, in ...
NASA ready to withstand asteroids
You will say that it smacks of Hollywood again, but American scientists continue to practice trying to find methods to deal with such space objects as asteroids. One of the latest developments ...
The second "Baikonur". Russia is building a space center in the Far East
Russia, at last, has begun work on the actual construction of its new Vostochny cosmodrome, located in the Amur Region. According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees ...
Battle for Cosmos. New Horizons
The new planet was discovered on January 4, 2010. Its size was determined to be 3,878 Earth radii; orbital elements: semi-major axis - 0,0455 AU. That is, the inclination is 89,76 °, the orbital period is 3,2 ...
A new series of American spy satellites. Plan to "merge" the satellites into a single multispectral "eye"
In the United States are developing to create a complex of new generation satellites. The American National Intelligence Directorate NRO today is referred to as one of the most secret institutions in the world ....
Space station on the moon as a super goal for Russia
11 September 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, spoke in favor of building a station on the Moon’s surface, which should become a super-goal for the Russian space industry and ...
Russia does not refuse space exploration
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Dmitry Rogozin said that there is no systemic crisis in the Russian space industry. “There is no systemic crisis in the space industry, we have ...
NASA: "How We Get Back To The Moon"
"Until the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will once again explore the lunar surface," - so said in an official statement from the US space agency. This time they ...