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 ...
Planetary race
6 August surface of Mars touched the Curiosity research apparatus. The MSL project (Mars Science Laboratory - Martian Science Laboratory) has aroused great interest from broad folk ...
The price of failures in the world space program
Space exploration is quite an expensive affair. Astronomical means are spent on work in this direction. Penetration into space brought humanity to a new level of planetary consciousness ....
India rushes into space
The space confrontation, which entered the active phase with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite by the Soviet Union, continues to manifest itself. Moreover, if a couple of decades ago ...
Possible descendant of "Energy"
Currently, the Russian space program does not have a super-heavy class launch vehicle. The last project of this technology - “Energy” - was closed in 1993 year. Rocket "Energy" could ...
"To demolish and rebuild everything"
It seems that Russian space enterprises have seriously decided to take a “honorable” place next to domestic football and no less domestic auto industry. On the night of August 7, two more were lost ...
American SLS rushes into space
Specialists of the National Aerospace Agency of the United States continue to develop the launch vehicle SLS - Space Launch System. A new heavy rocket is capable of delivering various spacecraft into space ...
New Russian spacecraft will go to the moon
The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, made a statement to the media that a new manned spacecraft will be created in Russia by 2018. In the same year ...
Russian plans to explore the planets
The last two months of the last 2011 of the year were marked by unpleasant events around the Phobos-Grunt automatic interplanetary station (AMS). A promising spacecraft has become a victim of problems ...
NASA Unveils New Orion Spacecraft Capsule
NASA presented last Monday during an official ceremony, which was held at the Kennedy Center (Cape Canaveral), a capsule of a new spacecraft for research by scientists from the far ...
Will there be a new moon race with China?
While European countries are "passionate about" economic problems, sometimes not even their own, and the United States has shown a great interest in human rights in the Middle East, the largest country ...
In Russia, there will be a heavyweight rocket to be sent to the moon
The Federal Space Agency managed to agree with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and send for the consideration of the Russian government a concept for the development of means for launching spacecraft until 2030 ...
"Private traders" in space
25 this May, around six o'clock in the evening Moscow time, the first docking of the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon - a spacecraft developed by a private ...