Another "merchant" for space: Dream Chaser
No sooner had the excitement around the first flight into the orbit of the commercial spacecraft Dragon dropped, as were the new messages from this area. This time, the news concerns the development of the private company SpaceDev ....
SpaceX Dragon, or New Space Competition
Six years spent on the work of the program COST (Commercial Orbital Transportation Service - Commercial Orbital Transport System) finally gave their first results. 22 May in ...
Edward Crowley: "The primary task of the space industry of the entire planet is an expedition to Mars"
Last week, a member of the NASA manned flights commission Edward Crowley visited Moscow. The main event of this visit was a lecture given by an American expert in Moscow ...
Before 2030, Roscosmos plans to land astronauts on the moon
According to the strategy of space activities of the Russian Federation, developed by Roscosmos, it is planned to fly around the moon and land cosmonauts from Russia by 2030. In a document posted...
US militarizes space
Currently, in the field of "military space" between the United States and Russia, only occasional, fragmentary cooperation has been established, notes the head of the US Air Force Space Command, General William Shelton ....
What will the next generation of astronauts fly to Space?
At present, a crucial important question is being decided: who will be the master of the space for the next 2 for ten years. Almost half a century, when humanity poked in the immediate vicinity of the Earth, not ...
Pre-holiday issues of American space exploration
By a strange coincidence, at a time when the whole world celebrates the anniversary of the first flight into space by Yu.A. Gagarin, in the United States is slowly developing another round of space ...
Maritime Space Intelligence and Targeting System
One of the conditions that ensured the successful offensive of the German army in the summer of 1941 was the fact that the Wehrmacht was a decade superior to the Red Army in terms of the quality of army intelligence, systems ...
Roscosmos. Space plans for two decades
While the head of the Federal Space Agency V. Popovkin is being treated at the Hospital. Burdenko, and various media of varying degrees of yellowness savor "cherchez la femme" ...
Will ionic engines occupy a dominant position in outer space?
At the end of 2011, NASA announced plans to hold a competition to develop a concept for ion propulsion systems for spacecraft that will be powered by solar panels. A little bit later...
Flightless offspring "Roscosmos"
2011 year can be called one of the most unfortunate years for the national astronautics. Four major space catastrophes: February 2011 - loss of the geodesic satellite Geo-IK-2, August ...
Space drone from the creator of Microsoft Paul Allen
Recently, the BBC announced the intention of one of the founders of the computer corporation Microsoft Paul Allen to engage in space exploration. 58-year-old businessman is going to build an unmanned aerial ...
Military base on the moon. Space perspectives of pneumoelectric weapons
The first projects for the creation of permanent bases on the Moon were developed in the USSR and the USA back in the 1960s. The implementation of such projects requires huge funds and efforts. Currently not ...
The return of reusable spacecraft
Roskosmos placed an order for the development of a preliminary design, which is most likely to be carried out by the Khrunichev Center. The space agency allocates 250 million rubles and allocates two years to the project ...
Satellite supersystem created by the US Army
Bill Gates' largest unrealized idea - the creation of a satellite Internet network based on 288 satellites - can be realized thanks to the US Department of Defense. Documents from the Congressional Budget Committee...
Mars probe hovered in orbit
As it became known on the night of November 9, the Russian interplanetary spacecraft Phobos-Grunt was put into orbit, where it hovered without starting its flight to Mars. For the space industry of our country, this ...
Cosmos: Made in China
On the first November night, China made the next step in space exploration. From the cosmodrome located in the Gobi desert, the Changzheng-2F booster rocket was launched, the task of which was ...
"Union" in Guiana
October 21 international cooperation in space exploration continued with another launch. This time, the Soyuz family launch vehicle launched two European satellites into orbit. It would seem that,...
"Boeing X-37B" will bring people into space
In the company "Boeing" stated that they intend in the near future on the basis of the spacecraft "X-37B" to create a new and improved reusable spacecraft that is capable of ...
Nuclear rocket engine for Russian spacecraft
One could begin this article with a traditional passage on how science-fiction writers put forth bold ideas, and scientists later put them into practice. You can, but do not want to write stamps. Better to remember ...
The orbital grouping of GLONASS swept the Earth
One of the hottest topics of recent times is the GLONASS system. Still, this is the second, and therefore, an alternative positional system. And this affects the prospects of the entire system, including ...
Roscosmos buried "Rus-M"
October 7 as part of a specially organized faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the government hour, the current head of Roscosmos, Mr. Popovkin, spoke in front of the deputies. Parliamentarians organized such ...
NASA's largest solar sail in space
Recently it became known that NASA will carry out 3 missions during the Technology Demonstration program. The purpose of the missions will be not scientific experiments or space exploration, but carrying out ...
The world's first reusable launch vehicle intend to create in the company «SpaceX»
The unique project was announced by the American company SpaceX. She has the intention to present the world's only completely reusable spacecraft and the same launch vehicle ....