Russian Space Development Program
The current use and exploration of outer space is aimed at the development of science, technology, national economy, ensuring state security, as well as the implementation of international ...
Russia plans to regain lost ground in space exploration
In its quest to get closer to the level of the United States in the field of space exploration, Russia is ready to take drastic measures and significantly accelerate the planned missions to the Moon and Mars ...
Characteristics of the Proton launch vehicle
The Proton heavy launch vehicle is designed to launch civilian and military spacecraft into Earth orbit. Nowadays, the Proton launch vehicle ...
Flights on the "Union" will fly into NASA a lot of money
It became officially known that the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) signed a contract to commit ...
Russian "Unions" - the last hope of NASA
The United States is not only cutting costs on its space program, but is cutting them so much that it is not yet clear what will happen to it next. While the flight program is calculated until 2016. During...
In space, we compete with ourselves
This article will focus on the development of domestic cosmonautics, or rather, even on the development potential, which could be used more successfully by us than by the Americans. So, an American rocket ...
China seizes space
The People's Republic of China is gradually and quite successfully realizing its ambitious space plans and is rushing into space with frightening speed. The start of the Chinese space program was given in ...
Asteroid threat
Asteroids have always represented a danger to the Earth - just look at the example of the disappearance of dinosaurs, but since then more than 60 million years have passed. For all the time of its existence ...
Space cruiser
Today, few people remember that before the only launch of Buran, the Energia launch vehicle flew into space without a shuttle. Even fewer people know why she flew there. Newsreel of those times usually ...
The use of military space tools - the requirement of modernity
Today it is difficult to find a sphere of human activity in which space technologies are not used. But it should be remembered that among the factors that at one time stimulated space ...
Russia loses in the battle for space
The Russian Federation is getting closer to the moment when its space capabilities will be equal to the country of the second row. The last two decades, it was saved by the Soviet backlog - technology, technology, ...
Will Russia develop a spaceship similar to the American X-37B?
Oleg Ostapenko, commander of the Russian space forces, last week made a hint that Russia could begin work on creating a spacecraft similar in its characteristics to ...
Forward into space
Mastering the infinite expanses of the universe has always been considered prestigious for the leading countries of the world. In the struggle for laurels in space exploration, the United States, the European Union, China, and Russia are competing ....
Instant strike from near space
The latest news about aerospace developments in the United States may indicate the emergence of an integrated system of high-precision aerospace weapons based there. In this concept ...
Peaceful space
The creator of the first Vostok spacecraft, Konstantin Feoktistov, has come a long way from an ardent enthusiast of manned flights to their implacable opponent. His final thoughts to supporters...
Secret cargo
The US Army officially announced that on board the recently launched Falcon 9 rocket, in addition to the first private Dragon spacecraft that was being tested, was also its secret cargo –...
Blue Origin- American Pepelats
Multibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested in a secret rocket project known as Blue Origin.
GLONASS descended from orbit
The three Glonass-M satellites launched on Sunday did not last even a few hours. According to preliminary data, an error occurred during the launch of the vehicles into orbit. As a result, everything...
The secret space drone of the US Air Force successfully tested
The test flight of the secret unmanned military spacecraft of the US Air Force X-37B ended successfully....
Will a new theater appear over our planet?
Starting from the day the world learned about US President R. Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and to the present, a fair amount of scientific (and unscientific) fiction on the topic of "star wars" ...
China is conducting a secret experiment in orbit
China is quietly conducting an experiment these days on the targeted approach of satellites in orbit. Apparently, Chinese experts are successfully preparing to inspect spacecraft in ...
The development of a nuclear space engine began in the Russian Federation
The development of a megawatt-class nuclear power plant for a new generation of space technology began in Russia. Task assigned to Keldysh Research Center. About the importance ...
Soviet-American confrontation in near-earth orbits
8 on April 2010 in Prague, the presidents of Russia and the United States signed the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START-3). Putting the funds under control ...
How risky is it to rely on Russian spacecraft? ("MSNBC", USA)
The latest launch of a Soyuz spacecraft highlights the risks that the United States space program will now face: dependence for years ahead on another country for...