ROSKOSMOS: to find life on Jupiter
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 ...
Moon Treasure - Helium-3
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 program to counter the cosmic threat can be implemented
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 ...
The road to the stars. The crisis of modern cosmonautics
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 ....
NASA may abandon the expedition to Mars and switch to Europe
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 ...
Chelyabinsk race car demonstrated our vulnerability to space threat.
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 ...
New space race: four launches in four days
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 ...
Star Wars on the land of Baikonur
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 ...
Space passenger plane to the 2050 year: myth or reality
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 ....
The Ministry of Defense will test the Krona antisatellite complex
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 ...
Moon lift
Not so long ago, last year, Japanese scientists announced a rather unusual project to deliver various cargoes into orbit without the use of rockets. However, few people know that even more 50 years ...
From satellite navigation to a peaceful future
December 27 was put into commercial operation by the Chinese regional positioning system BeiDou-2 (literally "Northern bucket" - Big Dipper). So far this navigation system has ...
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 ...